Free and open source media centers are currently experiencing a boom in popularity. A complex ecosystem has developed around Kodi, composed of millions of users, thousands of “add-ons” – Kodi extensions from from 3rd-party developers – and content providers.
We developed de-Kodi , a full fledged crawling system capable of discovering and crawling large cross-sections of Kodi’s decentralized ecosystem at tunable levels of depth and breadth. With de-Kodi, we discovered and tested over 9,000 distinct Kodi addons. Our work further serves as the first ever transparent and repeatable analysis of the Kodi ecosystem at large.
Futhermore, on top of de-Kodi, we build a Kodi add-on SafeKodi which helps to protect Kodi users from malacious Kodi add-ons.
Some nice videos to demonstrate the usage of SafeKodi:
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Resources
SafeKodi: The first aggregator for (safe) Kodi addonsPublications
1. Marc Anthony Warrior, Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2020). De-Kodi: Understanding the Kodi Ecosystem. In WWW’20.2. Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Marc Anthony Warrior, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2022). Decoding the Kodi Ecosystem. In TWEB.
Media Coverage
1. SafeKodi: Researchers Help Kodi Users to Spot Malicious Addons - TorretFreak.com2. “SafeKodi” is Here to Save Users From Risky Kodi Addons - TechNadu.com
3. Why streaming on this TV player just got a lot less dangerous - Daily Express
4. Crean el primer antivirus para Kodi: protégete de addons con malware - AdslZone.net
5. SafeKodi: Acabaram-se os addons maliciosos no Kodi - Pplware.sapo.pt
6. SafeKodi: Προστασία Και Ασφαλές Streaming Στο Kodi v18.6 - PcSteps.gr
7. The new Kodi tool that helps keep streamers safe - VPNCompre.co.uk
8. SafeKodi: les chercheurs aident les utilisateurs de Kodi à repérer les modules malveillants - Yeeeah.fr
9. Forskargrupp har tagit fram ”SafeKodi” – en app letar efter skadliga tillägg - VPNBasen.se
10. SafeKodi, pour éviter les extensions vérolées sur Kodi - FredZone.org
11. Is Your Kodi Virus Free? Use SafeKodi to Scan & Fix - TroyPoint.com
12. SafeKodi: O maior aliado de quem usa o Kodi - NoticiasETecnologia.com
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More videos
Is Your Kodi Virus Free? How to Scan With SafeKodi - TROYPOINT VidsSafeKodi
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