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Sead Fadilpašić

Top surveillance camera has a major security flaw that allows hackers to install Mirai botnet

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A widely-used surveillance camera has been found carrying a high-severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to take over the device.

Researchers from Akamai recently reported cybercriminals started exploiting the flaw in the AVM1203, a surveillance camera model designed and sold by Taiwanese manufacturer AVTECH, to hijack the endpoints and assimilate them into the Mirai botnet.

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