“Free” movies and TV could cost you your privacy, bandwidth, and control of your home network.
We’ve warned about illegal streaming and modded Amazon Fire TV Sticks in the past. Now, researchers have found that certain SuperBox devices and apps could quietly enroll a household connection into a proxy network, allowing third parties to route traffic through it.
An earlier report identified CyberFlix TV, available through SuperBox’s custom app store, as containing Popanet proxy functionality that registers the device with a server controlled by the proxy operator.
Law enforcement agencies have warned that “foreign entities” are using residential proxies to conceal their identities and make their activity appear to come from someone else’s home network.
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Source: Malware Bytes Labs
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