Security Now (Audio) SN 1057: GhostPoster - Free VPNs, Hidden Risks
What if your smart TV and Firefox extensions were secretly hijacking your security and privacy? This episode reveals the jaw-dropping discovery of a massive TV botnet and the surprisingly clever malware lurking behind innocent browser icons.
- North Korea's profitable fixation on cryptocurrency.
- Amazon uncovers a cryptomining sneaking into customer clouds.
- Insecure Docker API servers are also hosting cryptominers.
- A new and truly massive SmartTV-based botnet discovery.
- DNS Benchmark's 4th release.
- Who, besides Let's Encrypt, offers free automated certs.
- Some interesting listener feedback.
- And how a PNG Icon was used to infect 50,000 Firefox users
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1057-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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