Internet watchdogs throughout the world have located a website that posts live streams pulled from breached baby monitors and webcams.
Internet watchdogs throughout the world have located a website that posts live streams pulled from unsecured baby monitors, CCTV cameras and webcams.
It’s been determined that the source of the site is in Russia, and that country’s authorities have been informed.
The compromised devices are located in numerous places around the globe, but the United States, the Netherlands, and France are among the hardest hit.
There are thousands of live feeds in total, and over 45 hundred of them are streaming from US cameras.
It doesn’t appear that there was any hacking involved in gaining access to the equipment.
The people responsible are said to use scanning software that locates devices still utilizing the default passwords. Those access codes are easily acquired online.
Figuring out which brands are most vulnerable was a fairly easy task, as the site lists content by both country and camera or monitor name.
Foscam, a company based in China, makes the products most commonly listed.
Linksys came in second place, but exactly which models are being tapped is at this time unclear.
It’s advised that webcam and baby monitor owners who did not reset factory passwords do so, and soon.
