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Infosec Analyst, former Systems Admin, Linux Enthusiast, at one time I was an aspiring English scholar.
BrianKrebsMany readers have been asking if this or that app for their TV is bundled with residential proxy software. Many of the apps in question -- as well as publisher/component names to look for -- are detailed in links throughout the story. But for the sake of simplicity, here they are:
Qurium's report: https://www.qurium.org/forensics/finding-popa/
Synthient blog: https://synthient.com/blog/popa-from-sourcing-to-distribution
Synthient list of apps and app publishers bundling proxy SDKs: https://github.com/synthient/public-research/blob/main/2026/06/popa/Popa.md
Spur: https://spur.us/blog/how-proxy-providers-co-opt-entire-networks
Nokia Deepfield: https://github.com/deepfield/public-research/blob/main/reports/2026-06-18-robovpn-neunative.md
Include Security: https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/
Infoblox: https://www.infoblox.com/blog/threat-intelligence/residential-proxies-in-the-wild/
edit: added Sythient github link.
Happy "Respond to malware infections because people are installing things to watch the World Cup" day to those who observe.
TutaGoogle just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web. 😡
The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it.
We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad
Mike Sheward
Everyone, I finally go on vacation this weekend and will be out for a week. If you can all please somehow make sure nothing terrible happens until AFTER I'm gone, I'd appreciate it.
Enron HubbardOf course Niantic used Pokemon Go for location training on autonomous weapons, but we weren't worried because it was just a fun game that got people outside.
Of course Snapchat and Instagram used filters to train facial recognition, but we weren't worried because it made our selfies look better and that puppy tongue was so cute.
Of course 23&Me was building a blood quantum database, but we weren't worried because we were curious about our background and it was just harmless fun.
We've been training a surveillance apparatus beyond the wildest dreams of any dictator this whole time.
We weren't worried because it's not like a bigoted authoritarian regime would rise and start abusing it, right?
...right?
Royce WilliamsRE: https://social.coop/@shauna/116737114240403155
This is a post about cyber security.
When your phone call finally gets through to your Democrat representative between their insider trading.
IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence NetworkA quick note on process regarding the recent AUR story. Everything worked exactly as community-driven threat intel should.
We protected each other.