A group of hackers has hijacked tens of thousands of Google's Chromecast streaming dongles, Google Home smart speakers and smart TVs with built-in Chromecast technology in recent weeks by exploiting a bug that's allegedly been ignored by Google for almost five years.
The attackers, who go by Twitter handles @HackerGiraffe and @j3ws3r, managed to hijack Chromecasts’ feeds and display a pop-up, spreading a security warning as well as controversial YouTube star PewDiePie propaganda.
The hackers are the same ones who hijacked more than 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide late last year by
exploiting vulnerable printers to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to PewDiePie YouTube channel.