Your Streaming Box Is Moonlighting as a Fraud Machine
A $30 TV stick secretly impersonating your phone to click fake ads, OpenAI pausing its own AI for being too good at hacking, and a video-call app turned malware delivery system. Busy Monday.
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A $30 TV stick secretly impersonating your phone to click fake ads, OpenAI pausing its own AI for being too good at hacking, and a video-call app turned malware delivery system. Busy Monday.
A cheap TV box brand is secretly running ad fraud through your internet connection. Plus: an 18-year-old Linux bug just got a name, and Microsoft 365 payroll accounts are under quiet siege.
A Chinese company turned cheap streaming boxes into secret ad-fraud machines. Also today: $88.6M in Bitcoin stolen via a wallet firmware bug, a critical cPanel flaw, and Russian hackers targeting hotel Wi-Fi.
A $30 streaming box secretly faking phone identity to steal ad money, $88M in Bitcoin gone thanks to a firmware flaw, and attackers using AI to hack servers autonomously. Big week.