Botnet Blunders: Outdated GeoVision Cameras Get Hacked, No Fix in Sight!

Discontinued GeoVision products are under attack due to a zero-day vulnerability. With no patches available for these out-of-date gadgets, it’s time to swap them out before they become hacker HQs. The Shadowserver Foundation advises retiring these relics before they make your security look like Swiss cheese.

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Hot Take:

**_In the world of cybersecurity, it seems like the undead have risen again. GeoVision’s discontinued video surveillance products are getting zombified into botnets faster than you can say “CVE-2024-11120”. Who knew your old DVR could be the star of its own horror movie?_**

Key Points:

– Discontinued GeoVision video products are vulnerable to a zero-day flaw (CVE-2024-11120) with a terrifying CVSS score of 9.8.
– The vulnerability involves an OS command injection flaw that allows remote, unauthenticated command execution.
– The flaw has already been exploited in the wild, with 17,000 devices exposed online, half in the US.
– No security patches will be released as these products are End-of-Life (EoL).
– Users are advised to replace these devices immediately to avoid being part of a botnet horror show.

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