
Bright Data's iOS SDK embedded in free apps quietly turns devices, including smart TVs, into exit nodes for web-scraping traffic. The SDK, shipped in apps behind an opt-in screen, uses a consent-sourced pool of 150 million-plus IPs. Scraping comes from the user's home IP, not the customer's, posing a risk to home connections and bandwidth. The researcher found the peer channel carrying scraping jobs has no real authentication and bypasses VPNs on iOS.
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iPhone Airplay 'Automatic' Setting Raises Security Alerts
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