Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
One of the most popular movie streaming apps online might be a prime target for hackers. On Monday, TorrentFreak shared a report from Antonios Chariton (aka DaKnOb), a security engineer and researcher who discovered a major vulnerability in one of the most popular forks of Popcorn Time. “There are two reasons that made me look into Popcorn Time,” said Chariton. “First of all, I know many people who have installed this application on their personalcomputers and use it, and second of all, by pure accident: I was setting up my computer firewall when I noticed the network traffic initiated by Popcorn Time.” Basically, in order to bypass the blocking in Europe, the developers of Popcorn Time utilizes CloudFlare infrastructure, which would mean that European ISPs would theoretically have to block the entire CloudFlare network in order to effectively shut off access to Popcorn Time. Unfortunately, “the request to Cloudflare is initiated over plain HTTP,” which Chariton explains could allow an intruder to initiate a man-in-the-middle attack on the host’s computer. Seemingly without much effort, Chariton was able to inject malicious code through the app himself, taking control of the application. But not all is lost, providing the developers are willing to follow the […]
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