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Stop the 75% failure rate. Learn which device vulnerabilities stall deployments and the exact fixes that get IoT projects to production.


A single compromised camera or outdated VPN credential can stall your IoT application development process indefinitely. 75% of IoT initiatives never perform well enough to proceed to the production stage. And 76% of those failures trace back to device-level vulnerabilities.

In this article, we will learn how to identify and resolve them.

End-of-Life Devices Become Attack Vectors

AVTECH IP cameras are located in critical infrastructure facilities at the very moment, used by transportation authorities and financial services. And 37,995 of these cameras are exposed online. Every single one is end-of-life with no patch available.

CVE-2024-7029 affects these cameras through a command injection flaw in the brightness function. The proof-of-concept has been public since 2019. AVTECH didn’t receive a CVE assignment until August 2024. Attackers had FIVE years to exploit devices without official acknowledgment.

What makes this dangerous:

  • Corona Mirai botnet campaign started targeting this in March 2024.
  • Attackers ...

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