Mike Olsen

I needed a simple set of good outdoor surveillance cameras for a friends home. Like everything else I buy, I turned to Amazon. I found (what seemed like) a great deal for a set of 6 poe cameras and the necessary recording equipment. Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Chip-Camera-1080P-CCTV/dp/B00YMEVSGA

When trying to get the cameras to work on my friends machine I simply logged into the admin webpage and went to configure it. First of all something seemed a bit off, the interface showed the camera feed but none of the normal controls or settings were available. Being one of those guys who assumes bad CSS, I went ahead and opened up developer tools. Maybe a bad style was hiding the options I needed. Instead what I found tucked at the bottom of the body tag was an iframe linking to a very strange looking host name. See the host name in the screenshots below:

At this point I went ahead and googled the domain, and guess what came up? If you read the title you have an idea already.

Malware. See this page or just simply go through this google search for more information. My guess is many people have missed this. The seller has great ratings and the products are a good deal. So be careful what you buy!

Looks like it was pointed out in a forum a month ago here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2362073&p=11&#r211

TLDR; First off, 223 words… really?? Second, Amazon stuff can contain malware.