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Security Roundup: LG SmartTV App Store Proxyware, Windows 10 Extension, and LastPass Leak

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This article covers multiple security stories from the week. It highlights that LG smart TV app stores are rife with proxyware — nearly half of available apps contain proxy software that turns TVs into nodes in a proxy network, often with thin user consent (ads every 15 seconds vs. background web indexing). Other stories include Windows 10 getting an additional year of support, SmartTV botnets, techniques for hiding payloads, and a LastPass customer data leak.

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Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash.

Spur analyzed the LG smart TV app store, and found that almost half of the apps available contain proxy software, turning your TV into a node in their proxy network.

Many of the analyzed apps provided a thin veneer of user consent: they offer you the tradeoff of seeing an ad every 15 seconds, or allowing their 'occasional web indexing' to run permanently in the background.

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Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer reviewers. Spur analyzed …

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