Your $50 Hikvision cam isn’t just watching your driveway anymore. It’s a military targeting system now.
Hundreds of hacking attempts against Hikvision and Dahua cameras across 7+ countries. 5 CVEs exploited. 10,000+ cameras compromised in the Ukraine theater alone. Your IoT camera is now a weapon of war.
Check Point Research dropped a report this week showing Iran-linked hackers scanning and compromising consumer security cameras across Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Lebanon, and Cyprus — timed to coincide with Iranian missile and drone strikes. Honestly, the punchline is darker: Israel and the CIA had already been doing the same thing to Tehran’s traffic cameras for years to track and assassinate Ayatollah Khamenei.
