LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
LG plans to ban smart-TV apps that convert sets into residential proxy nodes, after researchers found over 40 % of available apps contained such functionality — a concern for home-office network integrity.
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The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG's webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user's TV.
Editorial Analysis
With widespread remote work, compromised consumer IoT devices on home networks can serve as proxy exit nodes that degrade IP-reputation controls and enable credential-stuffing attacks traversing corporate VPNs.
Assess whether endpoint-detection or network-segmentation controls on remote-worker networks can identify IoT devices acting as proxy relays.
Smart-TV apps silently converted millions of devices into proxy infrastructure; enterprises with remote workforces should evaluate exposure from compromised home networks.
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