Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies
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Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE botnet, which infected over 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes with malware from Chinese manufacturer Videostrong Technology that rented users' internet connections to residential proxy services for ad fraud and other abuse.