
Amazon stood up to pirate football by blocking all third-party apps downloaded to Fire TV Sticks. The company founded by Jeff Bezos has started to restrict access to pirate platforms by integrating the new Vega OS operating system. In addition, this measure which stops the playback of illegal content concerns both the oldest Fire TV Sticks and the most recent versions. However, even though access to third-party applications is already prohibited, There are those who have looked for alternatives to watch pirated content.
The EVPAD has become the preferred device access films, series, sports and international channels for free, but what exactly is it? EVPAD is a Chinese TV Box delivered with a pre-installed application so that users can connect to pirate servers and thus benefit more than 2,000 TV channels from around the world.
Said device install Android 7.0 operating system and, although it a priori offers great advantages, it opens the door to cybercriminals because It’s quite dangerous. This is indicated 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 it. apps malicious
Additionally, as if that were not enough, the operation of the EVPAD is also quite questionable, 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 video. torrent and plays it at the same time as it connects to the central service.
This last mention is important because the individuals participate in illegal hacking networkTherefore, lack of security causes endless attacks. steal personal information or install malware.