Security researchers at Bitsight have identified a malicious operation called Fuyao affecting cheap Android TV boxes that ship with pre-installed apps masquerading as legitimate smartphone brands. These devices, linked to Chinese company Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., fraudulently click ads while simultaneously converting owners' broadband connections into proxy networks without consent
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 Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019. The same apps have a second job. When a box
Originally published at thehackernews.com
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