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Months Old Flaw Behind the Surveillance Cam Botnet?

ID: a8c8adba-c366-5de3-b002-1e6381765822

STIX ID: report--a8c8adba-c366-5de3-b002-1e6381765822

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2016-06-28

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Paul Roberts

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A botnet comprised of over 25,000 compromised DVR/CCTV systems running Cross Web Server firmware was used in a large HTTP flood/cache-bypass DDoS campaign (≈50,000 requests/sec) targeting small online merchants for extortion; investigators link the infections to a reported RCE vulnerability in TVT firmware and note wide global distribution and shared BusyBox-based firmware across many vendors.

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