Ransomware on a DSLR Camera

I'm guessing that you pull the card out and insert another, and it works fine. Or even format the card and it works fine again. I doubt anything was really done to the camera to make it always mess up your cards, this is a case of really need more details on this "hack" to see if it is really an issue or just a clever trick while a camera has the card's file system mounted on a computer.
 
Seems like something that isn’t too likely to happen. If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled camera, keep the network password-protected, and turn it off when not absolutely needed.
 
Run&Gun said:
The more we’re connected, the more we’re connected to potential danger.
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It usually goes in circles. Attack-defense-attack-defense take turns in gaining an upper hand.

PS. When I was working in the car audio stores in LA in the late 80's/early 90's, head unit theft was a huge risk (I had my car broken into too once, at the Temescal Cyn beach .. the perps smashed the side window with a crowbar trying to get to the stereo but had to leave before pulling it out ... the window replacement cost more than the stereo). Then, pull-out units became popular. As it wasn't a very elegant solution, the face plate removal sort of did the trick because, without it, stereo didn't work and it was nearly worthless to a fence. Then everything got so interconnected and chipped, the process of breaking in became nearly worthless.

PPS. Analog phone chipping was huge into the mid-90's too. Crooks had machines at home, "555-1212 is already taken!". Then the owner of the legitimate phone got the bill, called the phone company, they'd tell him to come to a store and get a different number. And then, in early 1994, digital phones came out. They sounded like crap due to the low bit rate but were next to impossible to copy.
 
DLD said:
It usually goes in circles. Attack-defense-attack-defense take turns in gaining an upper hand.

PS. When I was working in the car audio stores in LA in the late 80's/early 90's, head unit theft was a huge risk (I had my car broken into too once, at the Temescal Cyn beach .. the perps smashed the side window with a crowbar trying to get to the stereo but had to leave before pulling it out ... the window replacement cost more than the stereo). Then, pull-out units became popular. As it wasn't a very elegant solution, the face plate removal sort of did the trick because, without it, stereo didn't work and it was nearly worthless to a fence. Then everything got so interconnected and chipped, the process of breaking in became nearly worthless.

PPS. Analog phone chipping was huge into the mid-90's too. Crooks had machines at home, "555-1212 is already taken!". Then the owner of the legitimate phone got the bill, called the phone company, they'd tell him to come to a store and get a different number. And then, in early 1994, digital phones came out. They sounded like crap due to the low bit rate but were next to impossible to copy.
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My first aftermarket head unit I had put in my car in HS in the mid-90's had a removable face plate. Supposedly they were next to impossible to replace, unless you could prove you were the owner of the radio. I remember popping it off and putting it in the case for it and putting it in my jacket pocket whenever I'd park. I also had 'engine kill' on my alarm system. Yeah, you'd pop the face off and take it with you for about a month then the coolness of that wore off and you'd pop it off and just put it in the glove compartment or somewhere else in the car. Kinda defeated the purpose...

I also remember the first really high end touch screen fold-out unit I bought in the late 90's(Kenwood). Everything was separate. The dash unit was completely separate from the two "brain" units and the navigation unit that were installed in other areas of the vehicle. If they ripped the "head unit" out, it was pretty worthless, too.
 
The bigger risk for this would be as a vector of attack on a computer when the camera is connected. Position an exploit at popular tourist destination like Grand Canyon, install the payload. Might a production be put at risk in this manner by attacking DIT station?
 
It is really just going after any attached drive (or could), there is nothing special about this attack. The camera is attached to the computer by wifi and therefore looks like an attached drive. Could do the same to your phone if you connected it as a storage device to the computer. Again I think this attack vector is very small and you can probably recover the camera by just putting a new card into it and turning the power on. Yes you might lose what was on the card, but that's all that should be gone. Since there are no details on this attack, it's hard to say that it even works, could just be a hoax.
 
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