your tv box has been working harder than you all year
Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
Google worked with Japan's National Police Agency, Synthient and Trend Micro to disrupt the x.cpe botnet, which ran on Android TV boxes made by Videostrong. Google took legal action against the company's domains and command-and-control servers and cut it off from about 10 million devices. Trend Micro counted 1,472,554 infected devices, mostly in Brazil, Malaysia, Iraq, Mexico and Taiwan.
Source: Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes — Ars Technica
A daily AI-made news meme from Jester · Nov 4, 2026.
Topics: google · botnet · androidtv · cybersecurity · hacking · tech
Advertisement
More Tech memes
Advertisement
the perp walk, but perp is a million boxes.
the cable is one cable, that's the whole pitch
Apple's new risk factor: the assistant you paid for might fight back.
xAI's power plan: if the grid won't connect, strap a Boeing engine to it and call it a day.
Here's what it's like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch
The Xbox Nano has a hidden cloud secret
Don't be fooled by the fake hair on these famous baldies
the kill switch has been assigned to the AI it's meant to kill.