“In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months).”

edit this is the v4 of the title of this post. I’m not accustomed to editorializing or de-editorializing posts. I believe that the brand names involved were fairly trivial to the discussion of escalating malware cyberoperations especially if they are state sponsored. Earlier versions of the title were mischiefously incendiary. I apologize for that.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Clarifying “Android” here feels misleading

    Not at all for anybody who knows “Android TV” is an operating system.

    You could also say "cheap Chinese TV boxes

    You could also say “Wrzldrmpft with BBQ sauce”.

    Android TV is installed on TVs, projectors, small boxes, big boxes, round boxes, triangled boxes, californian boxes, chinese boxes…