The weekly
4 July 2026
2 stories. Each headline opens the story page; the source line links to the original.
Protect my money and accounts
- FBI takedown: two million hacked TV boxes and smart-TV apps ran a criminal proxy network
Cheap no-name streaming boxes and even smart-TV apps quietly enrolled homes in the Popa botnet - practical advice: stick to name-brand devices and check Play Protect certification
- Opera becomes first browser to block 'ClickFix' copy-paste attacks
Fake 'prove you're human' pages trick people into pasting malicious commands; Opera's Paste Protect now blocks this by default - a hook to explain the trick everyone should know
Keep the kids and the household safe
- FBI takedown: two million hacked TV boxes and smart-TV apps ran a criminal proxy network
Cheap no-name streaming boxes and even smart-TV apps quietly enrolled homes in the Popa botnet - practical advice: stick to name-brand devices and check Play Protect certification