DataLux Virus Webcam Hack "Easily Largest Personal Data Breach in History", Reports FCC

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By Pierre Courduroux, Senior International Correspondent

We hope you don't sleep with the laptop open.

The largest personal data breach in history, first reported by Reuters early Wednesday afternoon, is likely to have "unprecedented and unparalleled consequences", according to a statement released today by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

China-based Tetrahedral Optics, which supplies photo optic cells to 90 of worldwide electronics manufacturers including Apple, HP, Samsung, and Motorola, came under intense scrutiny in 2015 for their Emulink Photovoltaic Eye Cell technology, which effectively allows for obscured webcam eyes to use what has been described as 'X-Ray emulation' video recording. Concerns continue to rise that even physically-obscured webcam eyes or Smartphone front-facing camera lenses may still have been able to observe and presumably record user activities. The DataLux Breach likely exploited this technology, according to software analysts who have reviewed the targeted code used in its construction.

The data collection event, now commonly referred to as the DataLux Breach, occurred sporadically between July 29 and August 3, 2019. The software algorithm activated device webcams and used a simple TCP/IP outlet to covertly upload compressed-file video data to an unknown cloud storage repository, which was then directed in clusters to an Israeli-based server bank.

Breitbart News and CNN have both cited upwards of 320 million individual devices having been compromised, with nearly all targeting devices affiliated with IP Addresses in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Great Britain, and southern India.

The DataLux malware, downloaded as an inconspicuous 18 MB file, appears to have circumvented common antivirus software and device control setting notifications almost entirely. 20 of the top 25 highest-traffic websites, including Google/GMail, Amazon, Alibaba, Fox News, Bing, etc., reported the largest instances of force-command downloads during this timeframe.

An initial FCC estimate of over two billion hours worth of webcam footage (an average of 7 hours per device) were presumably observed and potentially recorded. The long-lasting effects of this breach are "completely beyond speculation at this time", according to Carr.

Though no organization (including the much maligned 'hactivisim' advocate group Anonymous) has claimed responsibility for the hack, Reuters and CNN individually have speculated an Israeli-based operation based in Tel Aviv called Avara Ltd. is likely responsible. The company, whose website has since been taken down, claimed to be formed in 2008, was self-described as a data resourcing inlet for international online targeted-advertising companies. Incoming data harvested by Avara apparently skyrocketed by several hundred thousand percent, aligning with the timeperiod of the DataLux Breach.

Stay connected to WRN online for additional details as they unfold.

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