Samsung and LG vow to remove ‘botnet’ apps from their smart TV app stores that turned sets into an AI scraping machines — but the shocking claim that over 40% of webOS apps had botnet code raises the question of how things ever got this bad
Malware botnets route traffic through the internet connection on many smart TVs Roku, Fire TV, Tizen and webOS all affected Some manufacturers are removing affected apps LG, Samsung, Roku and Fire TV televisions and devices may have been part of a malicious “botnet” — and millions of TVs could be affected, though LG and Samsung … Read more
