The title makes it sound like the TV you bought at Best Buy might be part of a botnet. The article is about some drop-shipped piracy-box.
by ndiddy
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I'd expect pirate TV stuff to be mainly available through mail order, it's surprising you can buy it off the shelf at big box stores like Best Buy. I wonder how they weighed the income they'd get from stocking pirate TV boxes vs. how it would negatively impact their relationships with TV and streaming providers.
by 0xWTF
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Trusting a random vendor, even on your home network, seems crazy. But how do you secure a home network? Are we all supposed to be running Nagios, Grafana, Splunk, and have a personal CISO?
by aerzen
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Is there some software I can run on my OpenWrt to detect suspicious traffic?
I guess the big problem here is analysis, because a modern home network moves a massive amount of traffic, to many endpoints.
by j45
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At the very least it seems critical to treat such android devices as a hostile device on a segmented network (Guest network, or dedicated IoT Network).
by immibis
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The network security arms race escalates once again. If we just assumed every computer was publicly accessible and stopped blocking IP addresses, criminals couldn't make any money from this sort of thing.
Bright Data SDK is included in so many "legitimate" mobile apps and games and does similar stuff (minus the ARP spoofing).
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