Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air

'In the NulledCast podcast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring
camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can
listen. From a report:

A blaring siren suddenly rips through the Ring camera, startling the
Florida family inside their own home. "It's your boy Chance on
Nulled," a voice says from the Ring camera, which a hacker has taken
over. "How you doing? How you doing?" "Welcome to the NulledCast," the
voice says. The NulledCast is a podcast livestreamed to Discord. It's
a show in which hackers take over people's Ring and Nest smarthome
cameras and use their speakers to talk to and harass their
unsuspecting owners. In the example above, Chance blared noises and
shouted racist comments at the Florida family. "Sit back and relax to
over 45 minutes of entertainment," an advertisement for the podcast
posted to a hacking forum called Nulled reads. "Join us as we go on
completely random tangents such as; Ring & Nest Trolling, telling
shelter owners we killed a kitten, Nulled drama, and more ridiculous
topics. Be sure to join our Discord to watch the shows live."

Software to hack Ring cameras has recently become popular on the
forum. The software churns through previously compromised email
addresses and passwords to break into Ring cameras at scale. This has
led to a recent spate of hacks that have occurred both during the
podcast and at other times, several of which have been covered by
local media outlets. In Brookhaven a hacker shouted at a sleeping
woman through her hacked Ring camera to wake-up. In Texas, a hacker
demanded a couple pay a bitcoin ransom. Hackers targeted a family in
DeSoto County, Mississippi, and spoke through the device to one of the
young children.'

-- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/12/12/204240

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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