# Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home

DevFeed: [Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/free-streaming-boxes-may-be-routing-criminal-traffic-through-your-home-8438.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/09/free-streaming-boxes-may-be-routing-criminal-traffic-through-your-home>)

Author: Pieter Arntz

Published: 2026-09-04T09:20:48Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Malwarebytes](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/malwarebytes.md>)

Topics: [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Malware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/malware.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [malware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/malware.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [residential-proxy-network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/residential-proxy-network.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [superbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/superbox.md>)

## AI overview

Researchers report that SuperBox apps may add household connections to residential proxy networks, enabling third parties to route traffic through them. The article also warns that weakened Android safeguards could expose devices to additional malicious software.

## Source excerpt

Researchers found that apps available on SuperBox devices could add your household connection to a residential proxy network.