Wireless Webcam - A vulnerability ?

[Guest]

[webbie146]

Hackers will just use a RAT (remote administration tool) like blackshades or darkcomet to acces a webcam.

[EricJH]

Hackers will just use a RAT (remote administration tool) like blackshades or darkcomet to acces a webcam.

But how does that tool come in in the first place?

[Ronny]

That is also an option, there are multiple options for every type of attack.

But please keep in mind that during use of Open WIFI you can NEVER assume to be safe, and you should NOT use plain-text protocols (e.g. Telnet/http) to submit sensitive data.
There is always the chance that there is someone listening in, and can eavesdrop on your traffic, or play Man-In-The-Middle with you.
Just use at least services like TrustConnect or OpenVPN or similar to protect your data, also watch your browsers SSL certificates closely, it's that simple to strip SSL off and send you a clear text http page instead of the original SSL you started on.

[Aikno]

Thanks EricJH  for reviewing the video and clarifying things out. 

It may sometime take less than 5 minutes sometimes to get in.If the ARP cache poisoning attack had succeeded you would still need to crack the encryption. The outdated and now depricated WEP encryption can be hacked that quickly. Most people are no longer using that. WPA/WPA2 takes much much longer.

But when the expert reffered to the 5 minutes he was assuming that he was already inside the network so no need to crack WEP or WAP2 encryption.
So you say that if  a person is on the same network as me, he/she could only gain access to my webcam if they exploited vulnerabilities in programs that have doors opened on the network. Therefore keeping windows up to date and CIS overflow protection on is enough to avoid getting hacked?

[SanyaIV]

What about listening on the communication between the webcam and PC? playing man in the middle, would that work or is the data encrypted? If this would work there would be no need for the same network. I doubt however that the data isn't encrypted or is somehow unfeasible to spy on directly over the wireless connection.

[Boris 3]

Hackers will just use a RAT (remote administration tool) like blackshades or darkcomet to acces a webcam.

The author of DarkComet just said that he is ending development and sales of the tool after finding out that DarkComet was used by the Syrian govenment in attacks against anti-government activists. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/darkcomet-rat-flames-out-070912

Some of the attacks were disguised as downloads of Skype encryption.

"In the meantime, this application installs the DarkComet remote access tool on your computer. DarkComet allows an attacker to capture webcam activity, disable the notification setting for certain antivirus programs, record key strokes, and steal passwords from your computer,"

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