favoredponcho@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoAn Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scrapingblog.includesecurity.comexternal-linkmessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down10 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1265arrow-down1external-linkAn Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scrapingblog.includesecurity.comfavoredponcho@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square38linkfedilink cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareManxome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoOne approach per the article: Approach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices): proxyjs.brdtnet.com proxyjs.luminatinet.com proxyjs.bright-sdk.com clientsdk.bright-sdk.com clientsdk.brdtnet.com
minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoPardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?
minus-squareOk_imagination@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIn the article they have this info under defense approaches.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIt’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.
minus-squaremanopor@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.
minus-squareFishnoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNice, they were already blocked on my router
One approach per the article:
Approach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices):
proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.com
Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?
In the article they have this info under defense approaches.
It’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.
I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.
Nice, they were already blocked on my router