public-research

Nokia Deepfield ERT — public research Threat research from the Nokia Deepfield Emergency Response Team ERT, focused on DDoS botnets and related infrastructure. Each directory covers a botnet family with a brief summary and machine-readable indicators of compromise IoCs. This repo consolidates pri...

CVE-2020-0022

CVE-2020-0022 vulnerability exploitation on Bouygues BBox Miami Android TV 8.0 - ARM32 Cortex A9 By Polo35 - 2020/08/24 "Usage: python poloexploit.py targetbtmac targetadbip, shellcommand, disablereboot, verbose" Based on scripts by Jan Ruge CVE-2020-0022 an Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click R...

tcl-androidtv-root-attempts

🌐 Languages: English this file · 🇹🇷 Türkçe The Complete Map of a TCL Android TV's Factory Layer — and the Proof of Why Software Root Is Impossible on This Firmware Eight days, one TCL 65T61C, one Arduino Uno, and hundreds of closed doors. This repo is not a "root guide" — it's a closure report :...

CVE-2026-20516

CVE-2026-20516: MiracastService confused deputy on Android TV Research and disclosure by Davide Di Matteo @Dingo97. This is my first credited CVE. I found an improperly exported, system-privileged Miracast service while researching a PEAQ Android TV. A caller can supply an intent extra that makes...

A hidden backdoor put 1.3 million set-top boxes to work for criminals

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Google Disrupts 1.3 Million-Device Android Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal Access

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 t...

Exploit for Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Arm Bifrost_Gpu_Kernel_Driver

Sony XBR-65X850D — Root & Persistence Local privilege es...

AI worms could spread across your smart devices, Anthropic warns

Your streaming box might not look like much of a computer. But connect enough inexpensive devices together, and they can run an AI model. Researchers at Anthropic demonstrated this by running a Google Gemma model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes. They warn that small models could soon spread...

Exploit for CVE-2026-20516

CVE-2026-20516: MiracastService confused deputy on Android TV...

Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things IoT botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The new version, tracked as Kimwolf v7, wa...

Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies

Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology...

‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botn...

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating they'd compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0 , a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software that comes pre-installed on many...

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

A new Internet-of-Things IoT botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf's ability to scan the local networks of...

CVE-2021-0889

In Android TV , there is a possible silent pairing due to lack of rate limiting in the pairing flow. This could lead to remote code execution with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12...

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we'll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators and services th...

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it's time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about...

Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?

On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix , ESPN and Hulu , all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts...

EUVD-2021-3508

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2025-55971: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

TCL 65C655 Smart TV, running firmware version V8-R75PT01-LF1V269.001116 Android TV, Kernel 5.4.242+, is vulnerable to a blind, unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability via the UPnP MediaRenderer service AVTransport:1. The device accepts unauthenticated SetAVTransportURI SOAP...