Seriously? *Still* With This Shit?

Oh, for the love of all that is holy…Hikvision cameras. Again. Apparently, some morons are STILL trying to exploit a vulnerability in these things – CVE-2014-3755, if you absolutely must know. It’s been kicking around since *2014*, people! Like, seriously? You’re still running firmware from the Stone Age? Get your act together.

The gist is some script kiddies (and probably state actors, let’s be real) are scanning for these vulnerable boxes and attempting to install a webshell. A webshell, in case you were wondering, lets them remotely control your camera like it’s their personal toy. Expect backdoors, data theft, and generally being owned. SANS is seeing this activity, so it’s not just some lone idiot.

Fix it. Update the firmware. Replace the damn cameras if you have to. Disable remote access if you can’t be bothered. I swear, some people are begging for trouble. And then they whine when they get hacked. It’s infuriating.

Don’t come crying to me when your security cam becomes a botnet node or broadcasts your living room on Twitch. You were warned. Repeatedly.

Link: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32316

Speaking of ancient vulnerabilities, I once had to clean up a network where someone was still running Windows XP. Windows XP! The thing was riddled with more malware than a hospital bed. It took me three days and enough caffeine to kill a small horse just to get it remotely accessible, let alone secure. Honestly, sometimes I think people *want* to be hacked.

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