Thousands of smart security cameras exposed online

Thousands of security cameras (opens in new tab) are still vulnerable to an old exploit, and unless organizations move to apply the fix, they risk Russian hackers taking over their endpoints and stealing their data. According to cybersecurity researchers at CYFIRMA, the cameras in question are made by Hikvision, one of the most popular video security system (opens in new tab) providers out there. Its products were vulnerable to CVE-2021-36260, a command injection vulnerability in the web server, triggered by sending a message with malicious commands to the server.

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