Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess… ...

Android TV OS devices rarely have complicated remotes. It’s not uncommon for a sketchy “Android TV” box to include support for the Play Store, but this is often hacked into place after the fact.

Multiple highly-rated Android TV boxes sold on Amazon come pre-loaded with malware. Thie malware is responsible for ad-click fraud and makes the Android TV boxes a part of a larger botnet of ...

AllWinner and RockChip might not be household names, but the two China-based companies power several wildly popular Android TV boxes that are sold on Amazon. These Android-powered television set ...

Attention Android TV box users! There is new malware out there. However, you don’t have to worry if your device is officially certified by Play Protect. The malware, known as Vo1d, directly ...

Just because you bought a brand new Android TV box, that doesn’t mean the device is clean from malware and safe to use. In fact, there are tens of thousands of Android-powered endpoints out ...

The company identified 39 Android, iOS, and TV box apps that were involved. “These are template-based applications—not very high quality,” says Joao Santos, a security researcher at the company.

1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet.

We’ve seen plenty of other Android TV boxes turned into similar devices like this one which runs RetroPie instead. Posted in Linux Hacks Tagged android , Android TV , armbian , emmc , linux ...

The best Android TV boxes are more than just media streamers - they are versatile devices that provide countless entertainment forms with the utmost ease, right from your living room. Like the ...