Genuine question ... why do people bother trying to hack into CCTV? Is it just because they can? So they get to see a boring video feed of my driveway. I don’t really get it.
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First I want to point out a common misconception. Someone hacking into your system is likely NOT some kid, a Chinese army or mafia group, all wearing hoodies and sunglasses in a dark warehouse somewhere. They're likely computer professionals who band together to do other things on the side to make money. Very educated, very clean, upstanding to most people. The hacking of the camera isn't necessarily to see what you're doing but it can give a group "another ant in the army" that they can command to attack a website with hundreds of thousands of false requests, essentially crashing someone else (a city, a competitor company, someone they're extorting money from). these cameras are fraught with low security and maintenance. If you want a drone that you can add to your army to sic onto something, the IOT (Internet of Things) devices are great, mindless, unsecure bots to use.
They're also not really going camera to camera to do it. It's all scripted. The scripts will scan the internet, find things to peck at, auto launch scripts to try all known vulnerabilities, record the result of pass/fail/what is seen, and then compile a list. Sometimes the next step might have also been automated as well where if vulnerability found, then it will auto scan the surroundings on the network, see whats there and continue looking and gathering. A goldmine is when a computer is compromised and bitcoin are found. It's much easier to grab than just a bank access where you then have to go into Citibank to get. Also easier not to be tracked (as easily).