Common attack modes used in the piracy ecosystem

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Therefore, professional pirates rely on HDCP stripper devices to set up their piracy ecosystem operations. Not only can they feed the pirated content to origin servers for distribution of live streaming, but there is next to no loss in quality compared to the legitimate service.

Finally, in older devices without Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) or Secure Video Path (SVP) support, pirates can capture in-the-clear content from device memory as it awaits playback in the buffering process. Hackers can also use side-channel attacks to extract the encryption keys without breaking the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithms by using logic analyzers to read electronic waves or power consumption patterns. The latter kind of attack was more common when smart cards were used in set-top boxes as the receiver security component of one-way broadcast conditional access systems, and it also required advanced analysis equipment and knowledge.

The most successful approach pirates use is to run deeply discounted online services with linear portfolios, often with hundreds of channels. By aggregating content into multichannel streams with professional-quality EPGs, pirates can deliver a user experience that’s comparable to legal services — and steal their advertising and subscription revenue in the process.

These illegal services organize the content into multi-language presentations, allowing them to reach an international audience. They add features and use interactive communications between clients and services to gain insights into device usage, and the popularity of their content offerings. Moreover, they often benefit from ad revenue generated by online ad networks that believe they are legitimate OTT service providers.

 

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