Mirai Botnet Variant ‘Pandora’ Hijacks Android TVs for Cyberattacks

Sep 07, 2023THNBotnet / Cyber Threat

A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for viewing pirated video content

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