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An 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-scraping

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An 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-scraping

blog.includesecurity.com

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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog
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In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
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    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

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      Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?

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        In the article they have this info under defense approaches.

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        It’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.

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          I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.

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      Nice, they were already blocked on my router

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