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There are thousands of surveillance cameras in Russia that can be accessed by anyone – Abroad – News

These surveillance cameras are located in critical infrastructure facilities, power plants, industrial plants, as well as gas stations.

According to experts, all these cameras have open IP addresses. Most of these systems can be accessed without a username and password, or they have a default password that is easy to decrypt.

Russia ranks fifth in the world in terms of the number of vulnerable surveillance cameras, after Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea and the United States, according to information gathered by the Internet search engine Shodan.io.

There are approximately 124,000 such vulnerable surveillance cameras in the world.

Russia ranks third in the world in terms of the number of surveillance cameras, with a total of about 13.5 million surveillance cameras installed in the country. One third of these cameras monitor on behalf of the authorities.

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