What do you think about with set top boxes?

Set top boxes are those types of boxes that have various connections so you can hook up a TV and it receives the signal from the outside to be able to connect your favorite channels to you. In a recent article Vulnerabilities Expose Popular DVB-T2 Set-Top Boxes to Botnets: Researchers Avast, an antivirus company, talks about research done that makes several models vulnerable to attack, malware, and even a ransomware attack. We know the TV doesn’t have data on it, but the DVR portion of the device may. While this is theretical right now, the actors may decide that this may be a new attack vector seeing that devices aren’t going to get updated. Check this article out, and let me know what you think.