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Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why are they even connected to your router in the first place?

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not OP but, my TV has a local api. I connected it to my network so I can control it via home assistant. That can be one reason why. Of course, its also on a VLAN that has no access to the WAN.

[–] LettucePrey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

firmware updates, then I forget the network on the device and then denylist the MAC address