Here’s something we haven’t seen before: security camera recorders hacked and used to mine bitcoin.
HERE’S SOMETHING WE haven’t seen before: security camera recorders hacked and used to mine bitcoin.
The issue was first reported by Johannes Ullrich, an instructor at the SANS Technology Institute — a computer security training organization. Last Friday, he discovered malicious software infecting the Hikvision DVRs used to record video from security cameras. The malware jumps from device to device, trying to infect any other machines it can find on the network. But it also tries to earn a little scratch for its creators by mining bitcoins, a processor-intensive activity that would probably slow down any infected DVR.
Though this is a novel method, it’s hardly the first time hackers have tried to bust their way into other people’s hardware in order to make some bitcoin, the popular digital currency. The bitcoin system is run by independent machines spread across the globe,
