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Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera for three years and said nothing

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What did y’all expect? Cheap cam AND security? Wyze only has enough cash for the cam Face With Tears Of Joy
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Disappointing but not surprising. It's a garbage product and the garbage company.
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I have 3 V2's, and my family members bought a few also.
I'm not too worried about personal safety/face privacy since they all point outdoors but we do show up on them occasionally. This is rather disturbing and this coupled with their charging for subscriptions has me now wondering if I pull out of Wyze products completely and maybe go Google. But is that any better? It's definitely not as cheap.
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It looks like I timed it correctly. I didn’t set up my V3 cams until Feb 2022. ;)

Seriously though, I have little confidence in this company’s security. Hell, I wasn’t even confident in my Synology’s security so it never had ports open to the net. Seems like my paranoia was justified, as Synology NASes were targeted by ransomware.
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Lets hope the lawsuits come soon.
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That's pretty brutal. I've since moved on from Wyze but I do still have one V2 in use in my garage just so I can keep an eye on my vehicles/contents. Looks like I'll be swapping that out too soon.
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EugW wrote: Synology NASes were targeted by ransomware.
Do you have more info about this?
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This is the one of the main reasons, I run a wifi just for the "Cloud devices".

Garage Door opener & my Neatos refuse to work without internet, so they have their own segregated network. Everything else I have flashed so it works with my local Homebridge

On that QNAP hack, I just want to add that last year there was a vulnerability discovered in NetFilter. This is the base on which "iptables" runs. Which is used by literally every consumer level router.

While at the time, they said it only impacts local interfaces, but am not sure. It'd explain these attacks, where they got in through the NAT
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kramer1 wrote: This is the one of the main reasons, I run a wifi just for the "Cloud devices".
It doesn't matter for this particular vulnerability. They can get cam footage if the cam is connected to the internet no matter which way.
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wasn't the reason for going wyze being that its an affordable half decent hardware you could hack and run opensource on it instead?
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v1 doesnt have the ability to flash the firmware?
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This is one of those exploits that likely wouldn't have affected 99% of users but the response was poor
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The_Professor wrote: That's pretty brutal. I've since moved on from Wyze but I do still have one V2 in use in my garage just so I can keep an eye on my vehicles/contents. Looks like I'll be swapping that out too soon.
Did you read the full article?

V2/3 is patched, only v1 impacted and even then the hacker had to be on your home network first and find the random camera ID to gain access after
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BoredAtWork wrote: Did you read the full article?

V2/3 is patched, only v1 impacted and even then the hacker had to be on your home network first and find the random camera ID to gain access after
I did, it was a typo on my part, I have a V1 currently in use (and one more laying around somewhere).
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kramer1 wrote: On that QNAP hack, I just want to add that last year there was a vulnerability discovered in NetFilter. This is the base on which "iptables" runs. Which is used by literally every consumer level router.
Probably relatively few, actually. They all probably have netFilter, but it's probably decently rare that they run a vulnerable kernel for this issue to be a problem (5.4 to 5.6 or something). The bug became an issue in ~Feb. 2020 ... not sure how up-to-date routers are with their kernel, but I would assume most are quite old.

NASes OTOH? I could see them being a bit more aggressive with updates to gain fancier features.
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