HiatusRAT Actors Targeting Web Cameras and DVRs

TLP:CLEAR

Summary

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification (PIN) to highlight HiatusRAT¹ scanning campaigns against Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. Private sector partners are encouraged to implement the recommendations listed in the “Mitigation” column of the table below to reduce the likelihood and impact of these attack campaigns.

Threat

HiatusRAT is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) whose latest iteration has likely been employed since July 2022. Malicious cyber actors commonly use RATs to take over and control a targeted device from a distance. The Hiatus campaign originally targeted outdated network edge devices. Cybersecurity companies have also observed these actors using the malware to target a range of Taiwan-based organizations and to carry out reconnaissance against a US government server used for submitting and retrieving defense contract proposals.²

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¹ (U) Previous HiatusRAT campaigns have targeted edge routers to passively collect traffic and function as a covert network of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.

² https://blog.lumen.com/

TLP:CLEAR