A new exploit in Smart TVs has been discovered, which affects various smart TVs and allows a would-be hacker to potentially exploit your entire system. The threat lasts as long as you use an affected app, but once the malware is placed, the app itself is compromised. Called a “Red Button Attack”, the vulnerability is already widespread in Europe, and could be working its way to the US and other territories.



The Red Button Attack (so named because of the red button on your TV remote that accesses web content, like “On Demand” and the like) affects a TV that uses the new Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard for smart TVs, which currently exists on a number of TVs in Europe. Forbes reports about 90% of German Smart TVs use the standard, and HbbTV has recently been added to the NTSC standard for connected TVs in the US.

 

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