A botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google.

Google says it is highly confident that device maker Videostrong intentionally put a backdoor in the boxes and sold access to criminals.

They used the boxes for ad fraud and to pass other people's internet traffic through owners' home



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/google-disrupts-13-million-device.html