It's official, your smart TV can be hijacked: Malware is holding viewers to ransom.

It's official – you have lived to see the day that your television is now so smart that it can be hijacked, and traditional PC problems with malware and ransomware might soon become a problem in home entertainment too.

The year has only just begun, but already two separate security research firms have released updates about TV-based malware – one type that isn't really meant for TVs, and one type that is going to keep bothering users unless they become extremely vigilant with their smart TV security.

On 6 January, Reddit user moeburn posted that his sister had managed to get a virus on her LG Smart TV through the TV's built-in web browser. "She managed to get a DNS Hijacker that would say: 'Your computer is infected please send us money to fix it' any time she tried to do anything on the TV," he wrote, adding that the pop-up was definitely a virus that refused to go away until he reapplied factory settings to the entire TV.



Mary-Ann Russon.
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