A study on smart online frame forging attacks against Video Surveillance System

Deeraj Nagothu; Jacob Schwell; Yu Chen; Erik Blasch; Sencun Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.2519005

28 May 2019 A study on smart online frame forging attacks against Video Surveillance System

Deeraj Nagothu, Jacob Schwell, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, Sencun Zhu

Proceedings Volume 11017, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XII; 110170L (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519005
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Video Surveillance Systems (VSS) have become an essential infrastructural element of smart cities by increasing public safety and countering criminal activities. A VSS is normally deployed in a secure network to prevent the access from unauthorized personnel. Compared to traditional systems that continuously record video regardless of the actions in the frame, a smart VSS has the capability of capturing video data upon motion detection or object detection, and then extracts essential information and send to users. This increasing design complexity of the surveillance system, however, also introduces new security vulnerabilities. In this work, a smart, real-time frame duplication attack is investigated. We show the feasibility of forging the video streams in real-time as the camera’s surroundings change. The generated frames are compared constantly and instantly to identify changes in the pixel values that could represent motion detection or changes in light intensities outdoors. An attacker (intruder) can remotely trigger the replay of some previously duplicated video streams manually or automatically, via a special quick response (QR) code or when the face of an intruder appear in the camera field of view. A detection technique is proposed by leveraging the real-time electrical network frequency (ENF) reference database to match with the power grid frequency.

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Deeraj Nagothu, Jacob Schwell, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, and Sencun Zhu "A study on smart online frame forging attacks against Video Surveillance System", Proc. SPIE 11017, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XII, 110170L (28 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519005

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