How To Remotely Access My Video Camera

Welcome back, my hacker novitiates!

Like in my last commodity on remotely installing a keylogger onto somebody'southward computer, this guide will go along to display the abilities of Metasploit's powerful Meterpreter by hacking into the victim's webcam. This volition allow us to control the webcam remotely, capturing snapshots from it.

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Why exactly would you want to hack into somebody's webcam? Maybe you doubtable your significant other of having a fling. Or, maybe yous're into blackmailing. Or, perchance yous're but a creep. But the real purpose is to bear witness simply how easy it is, so yous're aware that it can be done—and and so you lot tin protect yourself against it.

Unlike merely installing a command crush on the victim computer, the Meterpreter has the power to do numerous and nearly unlimited things on the target's computer. The key is to get the Meterpreter installed on their organisation first.

I've shown how to do this in some of my previous articles, where you could go the victim to click on a link to our malicious website, send a malicious Microsoft Office document or Adobe Acrobat file, and more.

So, now allow'southward fire up Metasploit and install Meterpreter on the victim'south organization. Once nosotros take done that, nosotros can then begin to view and capture images from their webcam.

Step ane: List the Victim'southward Webcams

Metasploit's Meterpreter has a congenital-in module for decision-making the remote system's webcam. The showtime affair nosotros need to do is to check if in that location is a web cam, and if there is, get its name. We tin can practice that by typing:

meterpreter > webcam_list

If he/she has a webcam, the organisation will come back with a list of all the webcams.

Stride two: Snap Pictures from the Victim's Webcam

Now that nosotros know he/she has a webcam, we tin can take a snapshot from the webcam by typing:

meterpreter > webcam_snap

The system volition now save a snapshot from her webcam onto our organisation in the directory /opt/framework3/msf3, which we can open and see what'southward going on.

The quality of the image saved all depends on your victim'due south webcam and surroundings.

Step iii: Watch Streaming Video from the Victim's Webcam

Now that we know how to capture a single snapshot from the victim's webcam, we will now want to run the webcam then that nosotros can picket a continuous video stream. We tin do this by typing;

meterpreter > run webcam -p /var/www

This command starts his/her webcam and sends its streaming output to /var/www/webcam.htm.

How to Protect Yourself from Webcam Intrusion

And then, what can you do to brand sure no one is peeking in on your habits in front of the estimator? The easiest solution—cover your webcam up. Some laptops with built-in webcams really take a slide cover you tin use.

If that's not the case, a piece of non-translucent record should to the trick, unless you want to buy one of these or these things. And if you withal have ane of those old-school USB webcams, simply unplug it.

We will continue to explore fun ways nosotros can use the Meterpreter in the well-nigh future, so make sure to come up back for more than!

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