Content piracy: Welcome to the home invasion
Content piracy has transformed over the last twelve months into a hyper-scale cyber threat making the risk to even the one-time consumer of pirated video real and increasing. By hijacking devices throughout the home using buried malware known as residential proxies, criminal and other threat actors use pirate content services largely as a key to unlock home networks for their illicit activities.
Over 50% of piracy apps and streaming devices are estimated to contain ResProxy malware, with recent samples tracking even higher.
ResProxy is effectively a runaway cyberweapon as threat actors compete to exploit a newly revealed “democratisation” capability to take over herds of devices. Consumers face grim prospects. Cyber disasters at scale, previously only imagined in Hollywood movies, could be next.