{"id":309969,"date":"2025-11-24T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:52:08","slug":"espn-97-5-houston-victim-of-barix-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309969\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kfnc.png\" alt=\"ESPN Houston 97.5 KFNC SportsMap Sports Map 94.1\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-168860\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/105762\/whos-hijacking-station-signals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For years now<\/a> radio stations using the default Barix logins have been victims of audio feed hijackings. This afternoon Gow Media Sports \u201cESPN 97.5\u201d KFNC Mont Belvieu\/Houston TX fell victim.<\/p>\n<p>During the station\u2019s broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles\/Dallas Cowboys game, the hijacker began running a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow them on social media. As of this report, all of the social media accounts mentioned have been deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>Similar \u201chacks\u201d have been taking place to stations using Barix Instreamer devices mostly with the default passwords <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qyorOejlOSA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for decades<\/a>. In 2017, a few <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/110432\/multiple-stations-hijacked-with-profane-anti-trump-song\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LPFMs were hijacked<\/a> with a loop of YG &amp; Nipsey Hussle \u201cF*** Donald Trump\u201d. This summer and Labor Day weekend, stations noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/news-and-business\/apparent-barix-hacks-highlight-poor-cybersecurity-practices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similar content<\/a> being broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the stations involved are being hacked due to their IP addresses being included on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shodan.io\/search?query=barix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shodan database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>KFNC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/espn975\/posts\/pfbid0bNknJGzRvRd8RyFZK27Hcxw2i41JktnozQUpVg1Hkcx2rvCDSaYV6VGhqpvGcnFQl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">immediately commented<\/a>, \u201cIn the past hour, there was audio airing on 97.5 FM signal that didn\u2019t come from the radio station.  Our signal had been hacked.  We are actively trying to rectify the problem. We appreciate the many of you who posted to alert us of the issue.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years now radio stations using the default Barix logins have been victims of audio feed hijackings. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-309969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}