Positive Technologies specialists spoke about the discovered vulnerability in the free system
It is noted that ZoneMinder is installed asprivate users and businesses. This indicates a serious danger for hacking the infrastructure of the security service, employees, the possibility of covert study of the internal structure of buildings. For ordinary users, this is fraught with surveillance and even resale of access to the camera on the dark web or its inclusion in the aggregator of surveillance systems with open access.
ZoneMinder is used in the USA, Poland, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and Russia. This was told by Ilya Yatsenko, an employee of Positive Technologies, who discovered the vulnerability.
On the scale of opportunities for hackers spoke andAnother employee of Positive Technologies, Vadim Solovyov, Head of Information Security Threat Analysis Group. “Through Shodan (a service for finding devices connected to the Internet) in Russia you can see about 50 servers running ZoneMinder. Each server is an organization. Each organization has dozens or even hundreds of cameras, ”said Soloviev.
At the same time, it is reported that ZoneMinder has already released a new version of the system, correcting this vulnerability.