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1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how (arstechnica.com)
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Researchers still don’t know the cause of a recently discovered malware infection affecting almost 1.3 million streaming devices running an open source version of Android in almost 200 countries.

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[–] szczuroarturo 1 points 2 months ago

Given that they are not certified by google its probably cheap chinese ones. Im pretty sure they are known to often contain malware out of the box