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Your Home Devices Are Being Turned Into Proxies for the AI Industry

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:51:31 +0200

Your phone, your TV, your router, anything in your home with an internet connection can be put to work crawling the web for the AI industry, and nothing on the device says it is happening. Some of that traffic is harmless scraping. Some of it is not, and it leaves under your IP address either way, so it traces back to you. It’s called a residential proxy.

I came across it through the smart TV story this morning. Researchers had taken apart the software inside some free smart TV apps and found it quietly turns the television into a relay, using the home connection to pull web pages for a data company that resells that access to the AI industry. One question stuck with me. What if it does not stop at one device. So I went digging, and it does not stop there, not by a long way.

Kimwolf Botnet: 2 Million Android TV Boxes Hacked via Proxy App Vulnerability

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:28:00 +0100

A botnet just fired 1.7 billion DDoS commands in 72 hours. Attack capacity: nearly 30 Terabits per second. 2 million Android TV boxes sitting in living rooms across 222 countries and regions. And now we know how the attackers built it so fast. 🧐

The attackers didn’t send phishing emails. They didn’t trick anyone into downloading malware. They just bought access to a proxy service and walked right into home networks.

Your Smart TV is spying on you, and most people don't know. But YOU will!

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:00:15 +0100

Nearly every modern Smart TV has ACR technology. You’ve probably never heard of it. (Most people haven’t. Stick with me…) It’s there. On almost every Smart TV. And it’s tracking everything on your screen.

Not just Netflix. Not just YouTube. EVERYTHING.

→ Playing PlayStation? Tracked. → Watching cable TV? Tracked. → Using Chromecast or Fire Stick? Tracked. → Private security camera footage? Tracked.

If it appears on your screen, your TV is watching it, recording it, and sending that data somewhere else.