“Cybersecurity companies have also observed these actors using the malware to target a range of Taiwan-based organizations and to carry out reconnaissance against a US government server used for submitting and retrieving defense contract proposals,” the PIN says.
A new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware has been detected targeting Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs used in Western companies.
FBI warns over new malware targeting webcams and DVRs HiatusRAT is coming for IoT devices and wants to spy on Western governments.
To run the scans, the attackers apparently used off-the-shelf, open-source software: “They used Ingram — a webcam-scanning tool available on Github — to conduct scanning activity,” the FBI said.
“And they used Medusa — an open-source brute-force authentication cracking tool — to target Hikvision cameras with telnet access.
