One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxes into a botnet

Posted by donohoe on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:51PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/1024807/google-botnet-android-tv-shut-down

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Re:One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxe... by altairprime on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:52PM (#50346523)

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Re:One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxe... by ChrisArchitect on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:48PM (#50347386)

Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/shu... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337513)

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Re:One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxe... by kjs3 on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:56PM (#50347451)

Funny...no mention of it in the 'News' section of their web site.

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Re:One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxe... by enelsonmoore on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:12PM (#50347564)

I'm working on analyzing a similar compromise of Google-certified phones and tablets, some actively sold, with Triada and other malware, but have not yet been successful at reporting it to Google. If you know anyone who can get this to Google's threat intelligence team, send them the link to my report: https://ethannelson-moore.github.io/blog/2026/10/25/maxwest-...

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