Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.
At least 170,000 bots were running daily at the campaign’s height after infecting Android-based TVs and other streaming hardware via pirated apps and firmware updates.
A common infection scenario would see a user visit a dodgy streaming site while browsing on their smartphone, only to then be pushed into downloading the associated malicious app to their Android-based smart TV.
