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DVRs are being targeted by hackers, says security expert |
November 12, 2012
When looking for the source of a malicious infection on a computer network, a digital video recorder (DVR) might not make it on the radar of a malware fighter. That could be a mistake, according to one security expert.
"I can show you today 10,000 hacked DVRs in the United States alone," NorseCorp CTO Tommy Stiansen said in an interview.
NorseCorp bills itself as a gatherer of intelligence from the dark side of the Internet. It has more than 1000 computers acting as honeypots around the globe raking in 19TB of data a day on malicious activity and providing real-time threat information to organizations that plug into its API.
Norse recently discovered that one of its clients, a credit union, was spewing malicious traffic to the intelligence firm's honeypots. "The bank was completely infiltrated with malware," Stiansen said.
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