A Chinese company says the Vo1d botnet is now powered by 1.6 million Android TV devices, up from 1.3 million half a year ago.

A malware tool, the Vo1d botnet can compromise Android TV boxes as well as PCs and turn them into proxy servers so that they can help the hackers behind it facilitate malicious or illegal operations.

The BadBox botnet is a cyber-fraud operation targeting primarily low-cost Android-based devices like TV streaming boxes, tablets, smart TVs, and smartphones. These devices either come pre-loaded ...

Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team worked alongside Google, Trend Micro, The Shadowserver Foundation and others to disrupt the largest botnet of infected connected TV devices ...

Researchers at cybersecurity firm XLab have discovered that a new variant of the massive botnet “Vo1d” has infected over 1.6 ...