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Over 100 million Hikvision devices hit by critical cyber vulnerability

CyberSecurity Insiders

China-based video surveillance related product offering company Hikvision has issued a security advisory saying that all those using their security cameras and NVRs must know a critical vulnerability on its devices that could allow hackers to take control of the cameras and use them as bots to launch DDoS or other related attacks.

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

The sudo vulnerability aka CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. DDoS Attacks Leverage Plex Media Server. SonicWall issues Firmware Patch after Attackers Exploited Critical Bugs. Ransomware Group Claims it Dumped Source Code of Cyberpunk 2077 Game.