Tweaktown: Internet-enabled smart TVs can be compromised quickly and effectively by hackers, using the “red button attack” aimed at compromising users by sending spam and launching attacks.
Hackers also have had success by hijacking built-in audio and video into smart TVs, the researchers warn. Any smart TV that is utilizes the hybrid broad-cast broadband (HbbTV) standard is vulnerable to the exploit – which is the majority of TVs in Europe, and about to become even more prevalent in the United States.
