Free Apps on Samsung and LG Smart TVs Secretly Turning Your Devices Into AI Proxies

Free apps on platforms like Samsung and LG are secretly utilizing a Bright Data SDK to transform Smart TVs into AI proxy nodes for web scraping. Users can mitigate this unauthorized traffic by blocking specific DNS hostnames associated with the service, such as proxyjs.brdtnet.com and proxyjs.luminatinet.com.

Edward Kiledjian @ekiledjian