Security Hub is our foundation for full-stack enterprise security across clouds. It centralizes your security operations and turns raw signals into prioritized insights, so your team spends its time managing real risk instead of stitching tools together. Today that foundation grows in two directions our customers asked for most. We are adding purpose-built protection for AI workloads, and security monitoring for Microsoft Azure. Both are steps toward a bigger idea, that your best security tools should get smarter by working together.

These expansions came directly from customers, and they reflect where security is heading, not where it has been. The old promise of security tooling was a place to collect everything in one view. Collecting findings was never the hard part. The hard part is understanding them, connecting them, and acting before an attacker does, and doing it at the speed attacks now move. The programs that win from here will be the ones that see across their whole estate and respond fast, not the ones with the most dashboards. That is what we are building toward, and these launches are steps on that path.

Multicloud security management for Microsoft Azure

Customers across industries have made Security Hub a core part of how they run security on AWS. Most of them have run in more than one cloud for years, and they have been clear with us that they want Security Hub to also cover the rest of their estate. Today we do that for Microsoft Azure, with more clouds following quickly.

Security Hub now discovers Azure Virtual Machines, container images, Function Apps, and identities, then evaluates them for misconfigurations, internet exposure, and software vulnerabilities, with posture checks against the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark. Azure findings are prioritized next to your AWS findings using the same finding format, automation, and response workflows, so your team works from one understanding of risk across your entire estate. Azure resources are priced at the same rates as equivalent AWS resources with no additional fees, and there’s an independent 30-day free trial. To learn more, see the What’s New post.

This is not actually our first move beyond AWS. Earlier this year we introduced Security Hub Extended, bringing best-in-class partner solutions across nine security categories into the same experience you already use. Those partner solutions protect endpoints, identities, email, browsers, and data wherever they run, across any cloud, on-premises, and everywhere your enterprise operates. Extended was already our first multicloud and multi-workload step. Today we broaden what our own native capabilities cover, and the two lines of work now advance together.

Protecting AI workloads

Every customer I talk to is building with AI. Generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, model training on SageMaker, agents orchestrating workflows through AgentCore. These workloads are reaching production faster than most security programs can keep up, and teams often don’t yet have the tools to monitor model invocations, track agent behavior, or even know what AI assets exist across the organization. One security leader told me his team only caught a compromised service account, one that had been invoking a foundation model thousands of times, because finance questioned the bill. They found a security incident through an accounting review. The visibility gap is real, and it is already expensive.

This summer we start closing it with three launches. Two are GuardDuty capabilities for threat detection and investigation, and a third is a new Security Hub AI inventory.

GuardDuty AI Protection (generally available)

Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection delivers threat detection purpose-built for Bedrock and SageMaker. It detects anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting attacks where adversaries abuse stolen credentials to run inference at your expense, and prompt injection attempts through integration with Bedrock Guardrails.

Cost harvesting is accelerating. When credentials are compromised, attackers increasingly use them to invoke foundation models. Inference is expensive, demand is high, and stolen access converts straight to value without deploying any infrastructure. GuardDuty analyzes CloudTrail data events, learns what normal invocation looks like at scale, and flags the deviations that signal compromise or abuse. This is detection that only works at AWS scale, because you have to see the signal across millions of workloads to know what normal is. GuardDuty AI Protection is now available to all GuardDuty customers with a 30-day free trial.

GuardDuty AI-powered investigations (preview)

AI-powered investigations take on the manual investigation work that drives alert fatigue and slows response. The capability automatically analyzes GuardDuty findings and the accounts around them to separate true threats from benign activity.

It examines finding context, related activity from the last 90 days, affected resources, and threat indicators, using knowledge graphs and threat intelligence to complete in minutes what used to take hours. Each investigation returns a disposition assessment with confidence scoring, MITRE ATT&CK® classification, supporting evidence, and clear recommendations to suppress, contain, or remediate. Your team focuses on genuine threats, whether across a single account or an entire AWS Organization, and mean time to resolution drops. GuardDuty AI-powered investigations is available in preview in 10 AWS Regions.

Security Hub AI inventory (generally available)

You can’t secure what you don’t know exists. Security Hub now provides an AI inventory, a continuously updated, organization-wide view of your AI assets and their security posture. As teams deploy models, agents, and pipelines, security often can’t see what’s running, and without connecting those assets to active threats and misconfigurations, it’s difficult to know what to secure first.

Security Hub AI inventory discovers and catalogs AI workloads across your AWS environment two ways. For managed services, it inventories AWS Config resources across Bedrock, SageMaker, and AgentCore. For self-hosted and external workloads, it finds models running on EC2, ECS, and EKS through runtime analysis, and identifies the external model endpoints your workloads make calls to. It maps each asset to the infrastructure beneath it, including compute, networking, IAM roles, and data stores, and correlates it with security signals such as GuardDuty findings. So when GuardDuty AI Protection flags an anomalous invocation, AI inventory immediately shows you which infrastructure is involved, what’s connected to it, and where it belongs in your priority order.

AI assets multiply fast. A developer spins up a Bedrock agent for a proof of concept. A data science team stands up a SageMaker endpoint for internal testing. Another team wires in an external model API through a Lambda function. Multiply that across hundreds or thousands of accounts and you can quickly lose track. AI inventory gives you that view across every account in your organization, available in your Security Hub Essentials plan at no additional cost.

A different approach to full-stack security

These launches share something worth pausing on. You didn’t procure AI protection as a separate product, and you won’t stand up separate operations for Azure. You add them to the Security Hub you already run, and they show up in your prioritized view of risk. That same idea is what Security Hub Extended extends to the rest of the security estate.

Security Hub Extended now has 21 curated partners across nine categories: 7AI, Britive, CrowdStrike, Idira (CyberArk), Cyera, Island, LayerX, Native Security, Noma, Okta, Oligo, Opti, Proofpoint, SailPoint, SentinelOne, Splunk, Sublime, Upwind, Varonis, Zenity, and Zscaler. These are best-in-class solutions across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations. None of them are here by default. Each one earned its place by committing to a shared view of where enterprise security is going, and by investing alongside us to build it. Curation is the point. A recommendation only means something if it can be turned down.

The commercial benefits of Extended are real today. Pay-as-you-go pricing, a single AWS bill, EDP eligibility, and no long-term commitments. But the work we’re most excited about goes further, and it’s not about procurement at all. Findings from every participating solution are emitted in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and aggregated in Security Hub, and we’re building toward a single correlation across all of them, so a signal from an endpoint solution, an identity solution, and a cloud solution combine into one exposure and one attack path instead of three disconnected alerts. We’re working to reduce the deployment and onboarding effort between subscribing and seeing value. And we’re building the exchange that lets partner findings enrich each other, so the best-in-class tools you already trust become more than the sum of their parts. That is the differentiated future we’re investing in, and we’re building it in the open, guided by what customers ask for next. To learn more about Extended, see the What’s New post.

Accelerating forward

Step back and the shape of it is clear. Security Hub reaches across cloud providers, starting with Azure and expanding from there. It reaches across workload types with purpose-built AI protection and inventory. And it reaches across security categories through Extended and its curated partners. What began as a way to bring order to AWS security findings has become how more enterprises run full-stack security.

Detection and visibility are the foundation. What we build on top of them is a security experience that connects signals across every source you trust and helps you respond faster. It’s still Day 1, and Security Hub will keep extending as your environment, and the threats you face, continue to change.

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On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts warn these TV boxes require intrusive software that forces the user’s network to relay Internet traffic for others, traffic that is often tied to cybercrime activity such as advertising fraud and account takeovers.

Superbox bills itself as an affordable way for households to stream all of the television and movie content they could possibly want, without the hassle of monthly subscription fees — for a one-time payment of nearly $400.

“Tired of confusing cable bills and hidden fees?,” Superbox’s website asks in a recent blog post titled, “Cheap Cable TV for Low Income: Watch TV, No Monthly Bills.”

“Real cheap cable TV for low income solutions does exist,” the blog continues. “This guide breaks down the best alternatives to stop overpaying, from free over-the-air options to one-time purchase devices that eliminate monthly bills.”

Superbox claims that watching a stream of movies, TV shows, and sporting events won’t violate U.S. copyright law.

“SuperBox is just like any other Android TV box on the market, we can not control what software customers will use,” the company’s website maintains. “And you won’t encounter a law issue unless uploading, downloading, or broadcasting content to a large group.”

There is nothing illegal about the sale or use of the Superbox itself, which can be used strictly as a way to stream content at providers where users already have a paid subscription. But that is not why people are shelling out $400 for these machines. The only way to watch those 2,200+ channels for free with a Superbox is to install several apps made for the device that enable them to stream this content.

Superbox’s homepage includes a prominent message stating the company does “not sell access to or preinstall any apps that bypass paywalls or provide access to unauthorized content.” The company explains that they merely provide the hardware, while customers choose which apps to install.

“We only sell the hardware device,” the notice states. “Customers must use official apps and licensed services; unauthorized use may violate copyright law.”

Superbox is technically correct here, except for maybe the part about how customers must use official apps and licensed services: Before the Superbox can stream those thousands of channels, users must configure the device to update itself, and the first step involves ripping out Google’s official Play store and replacing it with something called the “App Store” or “Blue TV Store.”

Superbox does this because the device does not use the official Google-certified Android TV system, and its apps will not load otherwise. Only after the Google Play store has been supplanted by this unofficial App Store do the various movie and video streaming apps that are built specifically for the Superbox appear available for download (again, outside of Google’s app ecosystem).

Experts say while these Android streaming boxes generally do what they advertise — enabling buyers to stream video content that would normally require a paid subscription — the apps that enable the streaming also ensnare the user’s Internet connection in a distributed residential proxy network that uses the devices to relay traffic from others.

Ashley is a senior solutions engineer at Censys, a cyber intelligence company that indexes Internet-connected devices, services and hosts. Ashley requested that only her first name be used in this story.

In a recent video interview, Ashley showed off several Superbox models that Censys was studying in the malware lab — including one purchased off the shelf at BestBuy.

“I’m sure a lot of people are thinking, ‘Hey, how bad could it be if it’s for sale at the big box stores?'” she said. “But the more I looked, things got weirder and weirder.”

Ashley said she found the Superbox devices immediately contacted a server at the Chinese instant messaging service Tencent QQ, as well as a residential proxy service called Grass IO.

GET GRASSED

Also known as getgrass[.]io, Grass says it is “a decentralized network that allows users to earn rewards by sharing their unused Internet bandwidth with AI labs and other companies.”

“Buyers seek unused internet bandwidth to access a more diverse range of IP addresses, which enables them to see certain websites from a retail perspective,” the Grass website explains. “By utilizing your unused internet bandwidth, they can conduct market research, or perform tasks like web scraping to train AI.” 

Reached via Twitter/X, Grass founder Andrej Radonjic told KrebsOnSecurity he’d never heard of a Superbox, and that Grass has no affiliation with the device maker.

“It looks like these boxes are distributing an unethical proxy network which people are using to try to take advantage of Grass,” Radonjic said. “The point of grass is to be an opt-in network. You download the grass app to monetize your unused bandwidth. There are tons of sketchy SDKs out there that hijack people’s bandwidth to help webscraping companies.”

Radonjic said Grass has implemented “a robust system to identify network abusers,” and that if it discovers anyone trying to misuse or circumvent its terms of service, the company takes steps to stop it and prevent those users from earning points or rewards.

Superbox’s parent company, Super Media Technology Company Ltd., lists its street address as a UPS store in Fountain Valley, Calif. The company did not respond to multiple inquiries.

According to this teardown by behindmlm.com, a blog that covers multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes, Grass’s compensation plan is built around “grass points,” which are earned through the use of the Grass app and through app usage by recruited affiliates. Affiliates can earn 5,000 grass points for clocking 100 hours usage of Grass’s app, but they must progress through ten affiliate tiers or ranks before they can redeem their grass points (presumably for some type of cryptocurrency). The 10th or “Titan” tier requires affiliates to accumulate a whopping 50 million grass points, or recruit at least 221 more affiliates.

Radonjic said Grass’s system has changed in recent months, and confirmed the company has a referral program where users can earn Grass Uptime Points by contributing their own bandwidth and/or by inviting other users to participate.

“Users are not required to participate in the referral program to earn Grass Uptime Points or to receive Grass Tokens,” Radonjic said. “Grass is in the process of phasing out the referral program and has introduced an updated Grass Points model.”

A review of the Terms and Conditions page for getgrass[.]io at the Wayback Machine shows Grass’s parent company has changed names at least five times in the course of its two-year existence. Searching the Wayback Machine on getgrass[.]io shows that in June 2023 Grass was owned by a company called Wynd Network. By March 2024, the owner was listed as Lower Tribeca Corp. in the Bahamas. By August 2024, Grass was controlled by a Half Space Labs Limited, and in November 2024 the company was owned by Grass OpCo (BVI) Ltd. Currently, the Grass website says its parent is just Grass OpCo Ltd (no BVI in the name).

Radonjic acknowledged that Grass has undergone “a handful of corporate clean-ups over the last couple of years,” but described them as administrative changes that had no operational impact. “These reflect normal early-stage restructuring as the project moved from initial development…into the current structure under the Grass Foundation,” he said.

UNBOXING

Censys’s Ashley said the phone home to China’s Tencent QQ instant messaging service was the first red flag with the Superbox devices she examined. She also discovered the streaming boxes included powerful network analysis and remote access tools, such as Tcpdump and Netcat.

“This thing DNS hijacked my router, did ARP poisoning to the point where things fall off the network so they can assume that IP, and attempted to bypass controls,” she said. “I have root on all of them now, and they actually have a folder called ‘secondstage.’ These devices also have Netcat and Tcpdump on them, and yet they are supposed to be streaming devices.”

A quick online search shows various Superbox models and many similar Android streaming devices for sale at a wide range of top retail destinations, including Amazon, BestBuy, Newegg, and Walmart. Newegg.com, for example, currently lists more than three dozen Superbox models. In all cases, the products are sold by third-party merchants on these platforms, but in many instances the fulfillment comes from the e-commerce platform itself.

“Newegg is pretty bad now with these devices,” Ashley said. “Ebay is the funniest, because they have Superbox in Spanish — the SuperCaja — which is very popular.”

Ashley said Amazon recently cracked down on Android streaming devices branded as Superbox, but that those listings can still be found under the more generic title “modem and router combo” (which may be slightly closer to the truth about the device’s behavior).

Superbox doesn’t advertise its products in the conventional sense. Rather, it seems to rely on lesser-known influencers on places like Youtube and TikTok to promote the devices. Meanwhile, Ashley said, Superbox pays those influencers 50 percent of the value of each device they sell.

“It’s weird to me because influencer marketing usually caps compensation at 15 percent, and it means they don’t care about the money,” she said. “This is about building their network.”

BADBOX

As plentiful as the Superbox is on e-commerce sites, it is just one brand in an ocean of no-name Android-based TV boxes available to consumers. While these devices generally do provide buyers with “free” streaming content, they also tend to include factory-installed malware or require the installation of third-party apps that engage the user’s Internet address in advertising fraud.

In July 2025, Google filed a “John Doe” lawsuit (PDF) against 25 unidentified defendants dubbed the “BadBox 2.0 Enterprise,” which Google described as a botnet of over ten million Android streaming devices that engaged in advertising fraud. Google said the BADBOX 2.0 botnet, in addition to compromising multiple types of devices prior to purchase, can also infect devices by requiring the download of malicious apps from unofficial marketplaces.

Several of the Android streaming devices flagged in Google’s lawsuit are still for sale on top U.S. retail sites. For example, searching for the “X88Pro 10” and the “T95” Android streaming boxes finds both continue to be peddled by Amazon sellers.

Google’s lawsuit came on the heels of a June 2025 advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which warned that cyber criminals were gaining unauthorized access to home networks by either configuring the products with malicious software prior to the user’s purchase, or infecting the device as it downloads required applications that contain backdoors, usually during the set-up process.

“Once these compromised IoT devices are connected to home networks, the infected devices are susceptible to becoming part of the BADBOX 2.0 botnet and residential proxy services known to be used for malicious activity,” the FBI said.

The FBI said BADBOX 2.0 was discovered after the original BADBOX campaign was disrupted in 2024. The original BADBOX was identified in 2023, and primarily consisted of Android operating system devices that were compromised with backdoor malware prior to purchase.

Riley Kilmer is founder of Spur, a company that tracks residential proxy networks. Kilmer said Badbox 2.0 was used as a distribution platform for IPidea, a China-based entity that is now the world’s largest residential proxy network.

Kilmer and others say IPidea is merely a rebrand of 911S5 Proxy, a China-based proxy provider sanctioned last year by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for operating a botnet that helped criminals steal billions of dollars from financial institutions, credit card issuers, and federal lending programs (the U.S. Department of Justice also arrested the alleged owner of 911S5).

How are most IPidea customers using the proxy service? According to the proxy detection service Synthient, six of the top ten destinations for IPidea proxies involved traffic that has been linked to either ad fraud or credential stuffing (account takeover attempts).

Kilmer said companies like Grass are probably being truthful when they say that some of their customers are companies performing web scraping to train artificial intelligence efforts, because a great deal of content scraping which ultimately benefits AI companies is now leveraging these proxy networks to further obfuscate their aggressive data-slurping activity. By routing this unwelcome traffic through residential IP addresses, Kilmer said, content scraping firms can make it far trickier to filter out.

“Web crawling and scraping has always been a thing, but AI made it like a commodity, data that had to be collected,” Kilmer told KrebsOnSecurity. “Everybody wanted to monetize their own data pots, and how they monetize that is different across the board.”

SOME FRIENDLY ADVICE

Products like Superbox are drawing increased interest from consumers as more popular network television shows and sportscasts migrate to subscription streaming services, and as people begin to realize they’re spending as much or more on streaming services than they previously paid for cable or satellite TV.

These streaming devices from no-name technology vendors are another example of the maxim, “If something is free, you are the product,” meaning the company is making money by selling access to and/or information about its users and their data.

Superbox owners might counter, “Free? I paid $400 for that device!” But remember: Just because you paid a lot for something doesn’t mean you are done paying for it, or that somehow you are the only one who might be worse off from the transaction.

It may be that many Superbox customers don’t care if someone uses their Internet connection to tunnel traffic for ad fraud and account takeovers; for them, it beats paying for multiple streaming services each month. My guess, however, is that quite a few people who buy (or are gifted) these products have little understanding of the bargain they’re making when they plug them into an Internet router.

Superbox performs some serious linguistic gymnastics to claim its products don’t violate copyright laws, and that its customers alone are responsible for understanding and observing any local laws on the matter. However, buyer beware: If you’re a resident of the United States, you should know that using these devices for unauthorized streaming violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and can incur legal action, fines, and potential warnings and/or suspension of service by your Internet service provider.

According to the FBI, there are several signs to look for that may indicate a streaming device you own is malicious, including:

-The presence of suspicious marketplaces where apps are downloaded.
-Requiring Google Play Protect settings to be disabled.
-Generic TV streaming devices advertised as unlocked or capable of accessing free content.
-IoT devices advertised from unrecognizable brands.
-Android devices that are not Play Protect certified.
-Unexplained or suspicious Internet traffic.

This explainer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation delves a bit deeper into each of the potential symptoms listed above.

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