--- title: Think twice before installing this device promising free... description: Streaming media devices like SuperBox that offer free pirated movies and TV shows are being used to enroll home internet connections into residential proxy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Think twice before installing this device promising free movies | daily.dev og:description: Streaming media devices like SuperBox that offer free pirated movies and TV shows are being used to enroll home internet connections into residential proxy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zmiC10t01.png og:image:alt: Think twice before installing this device promising free movies og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Think twice before installing this device promising free movies **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Streaming media devices like SuperBox that offer free pirated movies and TV shows are being used to enroll home internet connections into residential proxy networks, letting attackers route malicious traffic—including nation-state attacks—through unsuspecting users' IP addresses. Security firm Plume found that these devices can be remotely infected with malware even behind a router, and warned dozens of similar streaming boxes carry the same risk, with the compromised proxy networks increasingly being used as delivery platforms for additional malware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do free streaming devices like SuperBox turn my home network into a proxy for attackers? These media players enroll a home internet connection into a residential proxy network, letting attackers route malicious traffic through the device's IP address in exchange for granting users free movie and TV streaming. Security firm Plume found these devices can be infected remotely even when sitting behind a router, and the proxy access is also used to deliver additional malware onto the already-compromised device. _daily.dev surfaces security research like this for developers hardening home and IoT network setups._ ### What did Plume's research find about SuperBox streaming devices and malware? Plume's analysis, published in research covering SuperBox, found a wide ecosystem of malware targeting users of the device, which offers pirated streaming content in exchange for use of the owner's bandwidth as part of a residential proxy network. Plume warned that dozens of similar streaming devices carry the same risk of remote infection and being repurposed to deliver additional malware families. _developers tracking IoT and network security threats can follow findings like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? – Krebs on Security](https://daily.dev/posts/is-your-android-tv-streaming-box-part-of-a-botnet-krebs-on-security-kajzwi9lv) · Krebs on Security · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Threat of Residential Proxies](https://daily.dev/posts/the-threat-of-residential-proxies-mgf2ntrxl) · Feisty Duck · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#malware](https://daily.dev/tags/malware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Think twice before installing this device promising free movies","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T21:21:10.761Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T22:23:36.741Z","description":"Streaming media devices like SuperBox that offer free pirated movies and TV shows are being used to enroll home internet connections into residential proxy...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7b5950f790c12815758e93fd46d099b7?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7b5950f790c12815758e93fd46d099b7?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Ars Technica","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Ars Technica","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/80883e0e48a34b5ebcf93777016cb3fe","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,malware","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ars Technica","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Think twice before installing this device promising free movies"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/think-twice-before-installing-this-device-promising-free-movies-zmic10t01#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How do free streaming devices like SuperBox turn my home network into a proxy for attackers?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"These media players enroll a home internet connection into a residential proxy network, letting attackers route malicious traffic through the device's IP address in exchange for granting users free movie and TV streaming. 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