A Canadian systems security consultant discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware. The malware was discovered ...

“Android TV” has essentially two meanings on the market today. There’s the official Android TV OS by Google, which powers TV sets, streaming dongles, and set-top boxes, and then there’s Android, but ...

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Multiple highly-rated Android TV boxes sold on Amazon come pre-loaded with malware. Thie malware is responsible for ad-click fraud and makes the Android TV boxes a part of a larger botnet of infected ...

AllWinner and RockChip might not be household names, but the two China-based companies power several wildly popular Android TV boxes that are sold on Amazon. These Android-powered television set-top ...

'The box was reaching out to many known, active malware addresses,' says Canadian systems administrator Daniel Milisic. An Android TV box sold on Amazon was found to be secretly loaded with malware, ...