Thanks to Amazon Fire TV Stick, you can turn a normal TV into a Smart TV. However, the high sales they are having are also causing them to be the target of many attacks. And it’s happened again now, with a new malware, called ADB.Miner. It affects all devices that use Fire OS, including the stick.
Amazon Fire TV is attacked by new malware
It runs through an application called Test, although it is not yet known how to install the application on the device. It is believed that these are applications for viewing pirated content. It can also be transmitted to other Android devices.
Malware on Amazon Fire TV
The clearest symptom that you are being affected by this malware is the slowness of operation. You experience extreme slowness when opening movies or loading applications. The reason is that such malware is using 100% of the processor’s resources to mine the crypto coins. If we ever have to resume the film we are watching, the process takes a long time. But the interesting thing is that detection is complex.
Since the malicious application in question is listed in the list of normal applications. But the user has to install apps like Total Commander to see this malware on his Amazon Fire TV. So it takes a long time to get rid of it.
At the moment, the recommendation to avoid being affected is not to install applications from outside Amazon Fire TV. To avoid possible risks. The source of the malware is still being investigated, but it appears that the malware will continue to be present for some time to come.