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Powerbox

2026-04-20 22:39:53.478303+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Listening to Darknet Diaries: Superbox, in which Jack Rhysider interviews D3ADA55 about a pirate TV box that's sold via BestBox and Wal*Mart (through their third party online programs), through an MLM scheme at your local farmer's market, and mailed unsolicited for free to people who work in the petroleum industry, and sold under other brands such as "Magabox" ("Show your patriotism by putting a foreign threat actor's tool on your local network").

And, of course, is not just core to some sort of botnet, but is also exploited by other players for integration into other botnets.

I've been, you know, kinda concerned about the various embedded devices that I've dropped on to my network ("Hey, solar power controller! Cameras! Other stuff that I probably don't even remember that I added!"), but... yeah.

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