Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI...

CVE-2025-55972

CVE-2025-55972 affects TCL Smart TVs with a vulnerable UPnP/DLNA MediaRenderer implementation. The issue arises when an attacker sends a flood of malformed or oversized SetAVTransportURI SOAP requests to the UPnP control endpoint, enabling a remote, unauthenticated Denial of Service. The device b...

Sony Smart TVs Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Sony Smart Tvs are smart TV products from Sony Japan. A log information disclosure vulnerability exists in Sony Smart Tvs. The vulnerability originates from the abnormal output of log files from a networked system or product. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive...

Thousands of Google Chromecast Devices Hijacked to Promote PewDiePie

A group of hackers has hijacked tens of thousands of Google's Chromecast streaming dongles, Google Home smart speakers and smart TVs with built-in Chromecast technology in recent weeks by exploiting a bug that's allegedly been ignored by Google for almost five years. The attackers, who go by...

ICU Project ICU4C Library Vulnerabilities Patched

Multitudes of software packages that make use of the ICU Project C/C++ and Java libraries may need to update after a pair of memory-based vulnerabilities were discovered and subsequently patched. Version 55.1 of the ICU Project ICU4C library, released yesterday, addresses separate heap-based buff...