Tales of unsecure IoT cameras come along with regularity. But it s going to be tough to top the system-wide failure revealed this week at California-based Verkada, the fast-growing cloud surveillance camera company.
Verkada committed a relatively simple security failure, which arguably put many of its customers and members of the public at risk. As first reported by Bloomberg, a group of somewhere in the middle of white and black hat hackers gained access to more than 150,000 cameras deployed by large companies, schools, local government agencies and healthcare institutions (see: We just found it through going through . Shodan results as always.
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Security researchers say they were able to remotely access Verkada cameras used by numerous organizations, including at this Tesla warehouse in Shanghai.
Security researchers say vulnerabilities in a Silicon Valley startup s internet-accessible surveillance cameras could have allowed them to gain full, remote access to all customers networks. But at least some customers dispute that the flaws could have been exploited to allow ethical hackers - or others - to pivot inside their network.
San Mateo, California-based Verkada, which manages and maintains 150,000 remotely accessible surveillance cameras for numerous organizations, says it s investigating the remote access to its devices.
Tillie Kottmann, a Switzerland-based researcher and self-described member of the APT 69420 Arson Cats group - a tongue-in-cheek riff on the names cybersecurity firms assign to nation-state and cybercrime hackers they track - says the group on Monday was able to gain administrator-le
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