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.<ul> 
<li>North Korea's profitable fixation on cryptocurrency.</li> 
<li>Amazon uncovers a cryptomining sneaking into customer clouds.</li> 
<li>Insecure Docker API servers are also hosting cryptominers.</li> 
<li>A new and truly massive SmartTV-based botnet discovery.</li> 
<li>DNS Benchmark's 4th release.</li> 
<li>Who, besides Let's Encrypt, offers free automated certs.</li> 
<li>Some interesting listener feedback.</li> 
<li>And how a PNG Icon was used to infect 50,000 Firefox users</li></ul> 
Show Notes - <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1057-Notes.pdf">https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1057-Notes.pdf</a> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
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