CCTV Botnet in Our Own Back Yard

Does anyone know how much computing power these cameras have? I would assume if someone has a botnet with thousands of cameras they would use for something better (and more lucrative) than just ddos...

* * A bit off topic, but incapsula is a great product if you are looking for a cloudflare substitute. I am actually surprised they not more popular, since product-wise, they seem better.

Based on the strings output, I'm guessing that these are Hikvision DVRs. Another problem with these things is that you can only set the admin/root password to a numeric pin through the normal UI and if you use passwd to change it to something reasonable it becomes impossible to log in through the normal UI.

Also most users have no idea what telnet is or that there DVR is running it. These things should really be put on an isolated network/VLAN, but again their target customers typically have no idea about those things.