According to Strategy Analytics, over 50 million smart home cameras were sold in 2018. However, these devices are also a potential gateway for bad actors to gain access to personal information and home networks. If exploited, the flaws in Blink XT2 allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information about the owner’s account, enabling them to view stored photographs and videos, add or remove devices from the account or block camera communications entirely.
“Connected devices, like Blink cameras, are everywhere. Precisely for that reason, cybercriminals are focused on compromising them,” said
As the attack surface expands with the adoption of connected devices, including IoT and operational technology (OT), foundational cybersecurity is paramount. Tenable is leading the charge by building the largest vulnerability intelligence knowledge base in the industry and one of the largest security research teams, which has surpassed its 100th zero-day discovery in 2019. Its extensive vulnerability research and expertise spans beyond traditional IT and includes everything from critical infrastructure to enterprise applications. Tenable works alongside vendors and the entire security community to identify, disclose and patch vulnerable technology to keep organizations and their customers more secure.
Amazon has released patches for the vulnerabilities and users are urged to confirm their device is updated to firmware version
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