{
  "id": 17823815,
  "title": "Google Disrupts 1.3 Million-Device Android Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal Access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/google-disrupts-1-3-million-device-android-botnet-says-tv-box-maker",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-02T15:50:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/google-disrupts-13-million-device.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google. Google says it is highly confident that device maker Videostrong intentionally put a backdoor in the boxes and sold access to criminals. They used the boxes for ad fraud and to pass other people's internet traffic through owners' home",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}