Google dismantles massive botnet hidden in Android TV boxes Google along with several cybersecurity companies and Japanese law enforcement dismantled a global botnet called X.CPE that was hidden in more than 1.3 million set-top boxes across more than 200 countries. Google said it tied the scheme to Videostrong Technology, a Chinese company that was an Android original equipment manufacturer producing a range of screens, speakers and robots. The overwhelming majority of the infected devices in the X.CPE botnet are Android TV set-top boxes, Google said, adding that they observed a number of other infected Android-based IoT devices, including telehealth devices, karaoke machines and digital signage devices. In lengthy reports about the scheme, Google and other cyber investigators accused…