Passwords for Tens of Thousands of Dahua Devices Cached in IoT Search Engine
Login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua devices have been cached inside search results returned by ZoomEye, a search engine for discovering Internet-connected devices (also called an IoT search engine).
Discovered by Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security, these passwords are for Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is vulnerable to a five-year-old vulnerability.