How Big Data Help to identify AVTECH Security Flaws
Our ProActive System monitor hundreds of different brand/models of CCTV Equipment daily to monitor their operating status.
During the past 2 weeks, we are gradually alerted to multiple remote viewing failure on multiple CCTV system under our ProActive Monitoring system.
These failure happens with different customers on different ISP.
ProActive System is able to analyse the failure captured and it isolate the failure to a single brand, AVTECH.
The AVTECH systems detected as having issues are multiple systems installed over the course of last 6 years, different model, different firmware with different installation date. Systems are installed on multiple different sites with different network setup, internet router, ISP.
With these information captured, our engineers are able to determine the issues down to security flaws present in the AVTECH Firmware are being exploited. Checks with TrendMicro isolate the issues caused to the malware ELF_IMEIJ, which are specifically targeting AVTECH surveillance equipment.
As such, we are able to send out an high priority email alerts to all customers on mailing list advising them on steps to take to prevent their system from being infected, guides to removal of the infected firmware and also how to prevent further attacks. Alternatively are also presented to customers whose equipment which the manufacture no longer release firmware patches for.
During the initial internal testing of our proprietary ProActive Monitoring Data Analytic system in 2015, it had already identify the weakness of AVTECH and see the potential attacked that could happens. With that knowledge we had ceased to use AVTECH equipment in our installation project since 2015 and had by 2016 migrate all our maintenance and subscription customers to using other brands. This prove to be a decision well made with the aid of our ProActive Monitoring system when malware ELF_IMEIJ infected thousands of AVTECH equipment and prevented our customers who kept their system updated from having their AVTECH CCTV system turn into botnets.
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