Usually people do downloads of subtitles for certain films for a better understanding of the same, but apparently some Hackers decided to take advantage of the situation to make a new invasion.
This type of invasion was discovered by researchers from the Check Point discovered a exploit malicious captions, this type of virus was created to take control of your device, be it a PC, Smart TV.
In order for users not to be left behind, researchers have demonstrated how hackers penetrate through captions in programs such as Kodi, PopcornTime (widely used in Angola), Stremio e VLC (another application widely used in Angola). The technique is not particularly complicated and depends on a tendency of developers to assume that the captions are little more than harmless text files.
Therefore, users of these software mentioned above, and take the utmost care of the sources where you have downloaded the translation for the films.
Here's how the Hacker attack takes place:
