Not only in our country, but also in the world pirate broadcast a major crisis… According to a study conducted by Infront, a Swiss-based sports marketing company, football leads with 27.4% among sports branches in illegal downloading and viewing.
It is not only sports competitions that come to the fore in pirate broadcasting. The interest in TV series and movies illegally on the internet or on applications is also quite high.
However, Opentext Security Solutions, which develops security software, conducted a study on 50 popular illegal broadcasting sites abroad.
After the analysis, matches, TV series and TV shows on illegal platforms film It turned out that the users watching are in great danger. The most important problem underlined in the report is that all the information of the users, up to their bank accounts, can be retrieved.
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‘IF SOMETHING IS FREE, YOU GET FREE’
Cyber Security Specialist, whose opinions I consulted on the subject Osman Demircan“All personal data is put at risk. These sites, which broadcast the TV series, movies and matches of paid broadcasting institutions for free, are not actually doing this for charity. If something is free, you get paid” said and continued:
— An institution that publishes paid publications for free does this through mobile applications and small applications added to browsers. These apps cannot be downloaded from app stores because they are not legal. So it doesn’t pass security scans. When you want to use it, it is downloaded to a tablet, phone or computer from an address whose source is unknown. This is where the risk starts.
— Such programs can be installed without any malicious software, but at that point, the rights granted while installing the program create a serious cyber threat. Claiming almost every right it can get, these software can access your entire phone without the need for any pest, by taking advantage of the rights you have given with your own hands.
‘YOUR DATA AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS CAN BE SOLD’
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In the research, it is underlined that bank account information can be seized. What is more interesting is that this information can be easily captured even if the users do not perform any banking transactions. At this point, the answer to how this situation happened is very important…
Osman Demircan, at this point,Trojan horseHe underlined. Demircan said, “Trojan horses are triggered when such publications are entered on the sites or when applications are installed on the devices and when the application is run. If the Trojan horse works as a keylogger (keyboard listening system) that records keyboard movements and shares it with a source, the user running this malware sends the credit card information he entered during an internet shopping on the device he is running, to hackers. said and added:
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“Credit card information is captured by this method in the simplest way. Apart from that, if the malware gives full access to the phone and the person running the malware stores a photo of the credit card on their phone or the entire card information in the notes section, that information can be accessed.
Demircan also underlined that after all of the personal data is in the hands of pirated broadcasters, the information is added to a database and sold, and even accessed and sold on all accounts on the device, especially on social media.
ATTENTION WATCHING SERIES AND MOVIES ON THE INTERNET!
The illegal areas that broadcast sports events are very limited, but the sites that broadcast TV series and movies are thousands. There are even some sites that only create movies and TV series.
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So, is it dangerous to roam frequently in areas that offer so much movie and series content for free?
“The frequent opening of such sites via internet browsers carries serious risks. Especially, the pages that open automatically in almost all of the free movie sites cause the installation of malicious software in unknown sources beyond our control. Osman Demircan stated that even the camera and microphone can be accessed and shared the following information:
“The absence of security software on the connected computer or the presence of an illegally installed operating system means that all software and hardware on the computer, including the camera and microphone, can be accessed. Even navigating such sites without watching a movie makes it easy for a Trojan to be installed on a computer.”
‘ANDROID AND iOS ARE NOT SAFE’
This type of illegal and threatening applications are generally made for Android devices. For iOS, it is called the most reliable domain. How true is that?
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“Android leaves a lot of freedom to the user, but it is very difficult to call it a very reliable space for iOS too” Osman Demircan underlined the following information:
— The developer mode of Android, which is supported by all devices and models and can be opened by the user, can create serious vulnerabilities in unconscious hands. The fact that software can be downloaded and run much more easily from outside the store is also a factor in choosing Android devices. In other words, if the user has an Android device and the device manufacturer has not added any extra security software, the user makes the Android device insecure very easily with his own hand.
— We can’t say it’s a very reliable area for iOS either. There is a structure in iOS that does not support installation outside the store, but installations can be provided by different methods.. It doesn’t work as uncontrollably as Android. However, iOS versions that have not received updates are seriously vulnerable to cyber threats.
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