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Is your smart TV a secret proxy? LG to suspend rogue apps, Samsung sets impacted too

ID: 839c75a4-f150-5c7c-b339-cea59b4ac840

STIX ID: report--839c75a4-f150-5c7c-b339-cea59b4ac840

Feed Name: ZDNet Security

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2026-07-28

Date Updated: 2026-07-28

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Research found thousands of smart TV apps on LG webOS and Samsung Tizen include residential proxy SDKs that can covertly turn consumer TVs into proxy nodes, enabling commercial scraping, scalping, or hiding malicious traffic behind home IP addresses; LG says it will remove and suspend noncompliant apps and improve vetting.

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