Subtitles Can Hack Your System

Subtitles Can Hack Your System There will not be even a single person without using subtitles when watching movies. We have so many reliable sources available for subtitles like opensubtitles.org, yifysubtitles.com etc. Will you believe me if i tell you that subtitles can hack you when you are watching movies?! yes, it is possible.

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The subtitle repositories, in which different subtitles are ranked and stored, are treated as a trusted source by the user or media player; the latest report says that these repositories can be maliciously manipulated and the attacker's subtitles could give a high rank which disguises us and many mainframe media players into hack our devices.

The researchers stated that the four of the most popular media player applications are vulnerable to these types of attacks. They are,

VLC player

PopcornTime

Stremio

Kodi

The effect of these types of attack vectors(attack methods) are more dangerous than the others. This method requires little or no deliberate action on the part of the user, making it all the more dangerous. Unlike traditional attack vectors, which security teams and users are widely aware of, movie subtitles are seen as nothing more than mere text files. This means users, Anti-Virus software, and other security solutions avoid them without trying to check their real nature, leaving millions of users exposed to this risk.

Each of the media players found to be vulnerable to date has millions of users, and other media players could be vulnerable to similar attacks as well. VLC has over 170 million downloads of its latest version alone, which was released June 5, 2016. Kodi (XBMC) has reached over 10 million unique users per day, and nearly 40 million unique users each month. Popcorn also have same huge users.

By exploiting this vulnerability an attacker can take complete control over any device running them. thus, one can do whatever he wants with our systems. the world still not recovered from the infamous wannacry ransomware attacks, so by these types of attacks millions of users are still prone to such attacks.

The immediate things we should do is to update the media players. we give you the latest updates,