{"id":948366,"date":"2025-07-21T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948366"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:03:53","slug":"your-smart-tv-might-be-secretly-working-for-criminals-and-google-discovered-10-million-hacked-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/your-smart-tv-might-be-secretly-working-for-criminals-and-google-discovered-10-million-hacked-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Your smart TV might be secretly working for criminals, and Google discovered 10 million hacked devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google filed a federal lawsuit against 25 Chinese entities operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, which has infected over 10 million Android devices worldwide through pre-installed malware and fraudulent applications.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant&#8217;s legal action in New York federal court seeks to dismantle what researchers call &#8220;the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs&#8221; ever discovered. The malicious network primarily targets uncertified Android devices including streaming boxes, tablets, digital projectors, and car infotainment systems manufactured in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google filed a federal lawsuit against 25 Chinese entities operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, which has infected over 10 million Android devices worldwide through pre-installed malware and fraudulent applications. The tech giant&#8217;s legal action in New York federal court seeks to dismantle what researchers call &#8220;the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs&#8221; ever discovered. The malicious network primarily targets uncertified Android devices including streaming boxes, tablets, digital projectors, and car infotainment systems manufactured in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}