Hacking CCTV Camera [ Physical Security ]

 “Be careful with surveillance camera if it is not secured properly, It could turn into something else” 

Security cameras are all wall-mounted and are setup with default parameters. These cameras can be hacked because of improper mounting, no physical security and insecure connections to the cam devices.

Stuff required

LAN Tap :

LAN TAP is a device that has two different Ethernet ports which allow to see any traffic flowing in between.

Wireshark:

Wireshark is a free open-source packet analyzer.

LAN Tap connected to camera footage and router cable.

We will just take the cable that’s going to the router to plugin and another cable going to a device that is looking at camera footage this will power-up our device. It will not only allow us to access the network we want to but also intercept traffic to extract the images from the security camera.

                                                   

                                                      Plug and Play

Its time to plug the device in our laptop and check LAN Tap connectivity status in the terminal.

Ifconfig | grep eth

Yep, it's showing it up.

Now we need to run Wireshark to capture the packets from the Cam monitor traffic.

We will be selecting Ethernet 1 

There will be a lot of traffic passing through.we are looking for  HTTP packets.

If you are seeing jpg image that means somebody accessing an insecure web portal because its default parameter set in most of the web camera control panel. Since we are intercepting from long time now we can go ahead and save our captured interested packets.

As you can see we intercepted lot of images.

I will save them on the Desktop. 

let us see what we have captured.

Conclude:

The main cause of this type attack was lack of  physical security. To protect from such attack a physical formal or informal inspection is needed to be carried out.