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#4 The Hacker News general June 06, 2026 at 08:29 UTC

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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A researcher reverse-engineered Bright Data's iOS SDK — embedded in consumer apps including those running on always-on smart TVs — and found it silently enrolls devices as exit nodes in what Bright Data markets as the world's largest residential proxy network, heavily targeting AI industry web-scraping customers. This supply-chain-style proxy abuse has direct implications for enterprise network defenders who may see unexpected traffic originating from consumer device IP ranges.

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