Operation CameraSwarm: Over 14,000 Dahua cameras compromised across Ukraine and Russia
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Summary
Hunt.io rebuilds Operation CameraSwarm from the operator's exposed server: 14,530+ Dahua cameras compromised across Ukraine and Russia in 35 days, with a persistent backdoor on ~1,900 devices.
Why it matters
This research provides technical context that security teams can use for monitoring and validation.
- Vendor
- Dahua
- Product
- Dahua cameras
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 6588 title: "Operation CameraSwarm: Over 14,000 Dahua cameras compromised across Ukraine and Russia" vendor: "Dahua" product: "Dahua cameras" source_domain: hunt.io source_url: "https://hunt.io/blog/operation-cameraswarm-dahua-cameras-compromised" published_at: "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z" tags: ["threat-intelligence", "botnet", "iot-security", "russia", "ukraine", "dahua", "cameras"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6588" lang: en --- # Operation CameraSwarm: Over 14,000 Dahua cameras compromised across Ukraine and Russia ## Summary Hunt.io rebuilds Operation CameraSwarm from the operator's exposed server: 14,530+ Dahua cameras compromised across Ukraine and Russia in 35 days, with a persistent backdoor on ~1,900 devices. ## Why it matters This research provides technical context that security teams can use for monitoring and validation. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** hunt.io - **Vendor:** Dahua - **Product:** Dahua cameras - **Published:** 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z - **Original:** https://hunt.io/blog/operation-cameraswarm-dahua-cameras-compromised - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6588