Google says a certified partner turned 1.3M Android TV boxes into a botnet

Google and its partners have shut down XCPE, a botnet that ran on more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes. Google says the device maker built it in on purpose, its Threat Intelligence Group wrote in a blog post on Monday. “A device manufacturer intentionally…

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