Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Krebs on Security at 03 Nov, 02:24 UTC

Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection out to strangers and conducts advertising fraud. Experts involved in the takedown…