Amazon stood up to pirate football by blocking all third-party applications downloaded to Fire TV Sticks. The company founded by Jeff Bezos began to restrict access to pirate platforms by integrating the new Vega OS operating system. In addition, this measure that stops the playback of illegal content affects both the oldest Fire TV Sticks and the most recent versions. However, even though access to third-party apps is already prevented, There are those who have looked for alternatives to watch pirated content.
EVPAD has become the favorite device to access movies, series, sports and international channels for free, but what exactly is it? EVPAD is a Chinese TV Box that comes with a pre-installed application so that users can connect to pirate servers and, thus, enjoy more than 2,000 television channels from all over the world.
Said device install Android 7.0 operating system and, although it offers great a priori advantages, it opens the door to cybercriminals because it’s quite unsafe. This is stated by a study carried out by a team of researchers from Korea University, which details that EVPAD can install applications from any source, without users’ permission. Therefore, this means that the device is quite easy to hack to install apps malicious.
Furthermore, as if that were not enough, the operation of EVPAD is also quite doubtful, since It is a P2P platform which allows all users to connect to each other — this means that EVPAD devices share files with each other on demand, so when a person searches for a video, the system downloads a torrent and plays it at the same time as it connects to the central service.
The latter mentioned is important because the individuals participate in an illegal piracy networkTherefore, the lack of security causes endless attacks to occur to steal personal information or install malicious software.
