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An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping (blog.includesecurity.com)
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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

In the article they have this info under defense approaches.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not blocking a DNS server, it's using DNS to block their specific servers.

[–] manopor@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.