Ring and Nest cameras hacked to broadcast their jokes and your life on the Web

In one of the most bizarre cases of hacking in recent times, Ring and Nest cameras are targeted by non-profit hackers, but to be shared via a live video stream.

Ring and Nest cameras are the extremely popular domestic surveillance devices owned and marketed by Amazon.

The company has signed partnership agreements with hundreds of police services across the country, many of which have marketed and sold Ring devices on behalf of the company.

These Internet-connected cameras have invaded much of the American suburbs, as Gizmodo has shown using data that Ring left exposed. These hacks and podcasts have turned devices designed to protect people’s homes into surveillance devices that have been returned to their owners.

NulledCast is a podcast broadcast live on Discord. It is a show in which hackers take control of people’s Smart-home Ring Nest cameras and use their speakers to talk and harass their unsuspecting owners.

Poorly configured, and equipped with a weak password, Ring and Nest cameras are easy targets, some hackers have recently become accustomed to hacking into them to make fun of users, and playing tricks on them as part of video podcasts.

These programs were organized through a forum called “Nulled”, broadcast on the Discord communication platform. They were announced in advance to capture a maximum audience among the hackers, on which the hackers also exchanged tools to hack into these cameras.

NulledCast livestream hackers harass the owners of Ring cameras
Ring camera owners in several states have been targeted with live streaming, and subsequent harassment of owners, shared via NulledCast on the Discord digital distribution platform.

The livestream is linked to a forum called Nulled where tools to access Ring cameras are sold and exchanged.

“Sit back and relax with more than 45 minutes of entertainment,” says an ad for the podcast. “Join us as we progress on completely random tangents such as, Ring & Nest Trolling…, make sure you join our Discord to watch the shows live. »

For example, in Mississippi, a hacker spoke to three young girls and introduced himself as Santa Claus. In Texas, another one claimed a ransom in Bitcoin from a couple. In New York State, a hacker woke a woman by yelling at her, and in another case taunting a family in Florida with racial insults.

After recent media attention on Ring hacks, Nulled members are struggling to remove evidence from Ring hacks and distance themselves from the practice.

“Hey NulledCast fans, we need to calm down on the ring trolling, we have 3 investigations and two of us are probably already screwed,” wrote one of the podcast staff self-described on a NulledCast Discord server.

“Drop the suggestions about what else we should do. This will always happen on a much smaller scale,” they added on the Nulled forum, which has thousands of members, administrators have tried to remove all evidence of Ring hacking by pushing back the forum database by four days.

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Source: News Tech