RokuControl-Conducting MITM Attacks on Roku

Smart TVs are increasingly common in many house-holds as an alternative to traditional cable television. Smart TVs utilize high-speed Internet and allow people to watch streaming video services in a TV format. Man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) insert the attacker between two devices that are communicating with each other. In this paper, we implement a MITM attack on a Roku device by capturing packets and replaying them using a packet crafter. Through such unauthorized control, this paper shows how the security of these devices ^can be impacted.