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The highly vulnerable devices have turned into tools for combatants to track, surveil and attack the enemy As U.S. and Israeli forces bombed Iran early this year, a poultry farmer in northern Israel decided to check on his chickens.
Summary
When he launched the app on his phone for the webcam outside his coop, he was alarmed to see that its language had been switched to Arabic. He contacted Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which found that hackers had taken control of the Chinese-made camera. They weren’t interested in chickens.
The camera’s orientation on the coop offered it a line of sight...
KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself, they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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