GoKawiilGoogle cuts ties with MECOOL maker Videostrong over Android TV botnet
Google says it has severed its relationship with Videostrong Technology, the OEM/ODM behind MECOOL Android TV boxes, after finding the company built a backdoor called XCPE into its devices. Google says the backdoor turned over 1.3 million TV boxes into a botnet, which Videostrong allegedly sold access to for ad fraud, data exfiltration and enrolling devices into residential proxy networks.