At least one in ten video surveillance cameras in Russia is potentially exposed to hacking by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Fyodor Muzalevsky, director of the technical department of the RTM Group company, specializing in information security, told socialbites.ca, commenting on the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation that the enemy is mass hacking CCTV cameras to spy on the Russian army.
Ukrainian intelligence searches for cameras on the territory of the Russian Federation that are vulnerable to hacking, using IP addresses and numerical identifiers of devices connected to the Internet. Then the enemy tries to remotely connect to the control panel of the device by entering the combination of characters specified by the manufacturer in the columns “Login” and “Password” by default. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, such an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is usually successful, since many users do not change the factory settings of the cameras.
“Of course, there is no publicly available data on the number of cameras that have been hacked or are vulnerable to hacking. At the same time, according to observations, at least 10% of cameras work with the “default” password. This applies, first of all, to cameras installed by non-professionals,” Muzalevski said.
On the morning of August 20, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced on its official Telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively using hacked video surveillance cameras on the territory of Russia to collect information about the military. This problem is especially relevant for residents of the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions, where the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has recently been curtailed.
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Source: Gazeta
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