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Pandora's box is now open: the well-known Mirai trojan arrives in a new disguise to Android-based TV sets and TV boxes - Doctor Web

news.drweb.com Pandora's box is now open: the well-known Mirai trojan arrives in a new disguise to Android-based TV sets and TV boxes

Doctor Web has identified a family of Android.Pandora trojans that compromise Android devices, either during firmware updates or when applications for viewing pirated video content are installed. This backdoor inherited its advanced DDoS-attack capabilities from its ancestor, the well-known <b>Linux...

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I hope it changes every program you try to watch to Bluey.
- That's basically just having kids but with less steps.

Allwinner and Rockchip are legit SoC vendors; they don't sell Android TV boxes.

The infection path is not really clear. I can understand that installing software from external sources can carry a virus, but firmware updates? Are their updaters that broken?