Hack Private CCTV Cameras

Step 1 : Downloading Angry IP Scanner

Angry IP scanner that is generally used by network administrators for port scanning and detecting for the suspicious activity.It is available on all the major OS.

CCTV Cameras : Angry IP scanner

First Download and install the Angry IP scanner.

Step 2 : Knowing your IP address range

CCTV Cameras : My Public IP

It is very important to know your public IP for accomplishing our target.CCTV cameras are connected to our broadband internet connection.If you are using a broadband connection then you can know your public IP by just going to Google or Bing and typing in the search box “My IP” .It will show your public IP.

Here 103.26.218.207 is my public IP .So the IP range will be 103.26.218.1 to 103.26.218.255

Step 3 : Configuring Angry IP scanner

Now you have to open  Angry IP Scanner.

Go to Tools > Preferences > Ports | include ports 80,8080,23 in Port choice tab

It will filter 23,80 and 8080 port.

CCTV Cameras : Angry IP scanner Preferences

Now we need to add the web detect option.Web detect is used when we want to know small details about the devices that are connected to the internet.For example any router name or the CCTV camera name or the model number.

You can add web detect using the following procedure :

Tools > Fetchers > add (<<) web detect

CCTV Cameras : Web Detect

click on the OK tab and you are done.

Step 4 : Starting IP scanning

Now fire up Angry IP scanner and enter the IP range.You now have to click on start for scanning.

After few seconds when the scanning has finished then it will show information in web detect tab.Now you have to manually detect the CCTV camera.There are few parameters by which you can recognize your CCTV camera.

• DVRDVS-Webs – CCTV camera
• Webs – CCTV camera
• Hikvision-Webs — CCTV camera
• iBall-Baton — CCTV camera
• uc-httpd 1.0.0 — CCTV camera

CCTV Cameras : Angry IP Scanner

Now if any of the above configuration matches your list then you just have to note the IP address of the detected CCTV camera and Go in the address bar of the browser and paste it.

Step 5 : Hacking into the CCTV Cameras Configuration

Most of the CCTV cams and router has the default password in it so they can easily be hacked. For example you can give the below passwords a try –

Username : admin | password : admin
Username : admin | password : (blank password)
Username : admin | password : 12345
Username : admin | password : 9999

You can explore more list by doing some R & D .For watching the live videos you must have some plugins and you will get the details inside the configuration page.

CCTV Cameras

If the administrator is too smart then he must have set the custom passwords and that can also be broken using the hydra tool in the Kali Linux.This way you can hack into a private CCTV cams.

This article is only for educational purposes and any damage caused due this is your own responsibility and not mine.This is only to show you how to secure a CCTV cameras.