Reverse Engineering an ANJIA PTZ IP Camera

Introduction and Trigger At around 1:30 AM, I received a notification from my home monitoring system indicating that something was scanning my network. The source IP belonged to one of my cheap PTZ cameras. The cameras are isolated on a separate network, but I wanted to understand what was happening, so I decided to reverse engineer both the camera and the Android app to find out what was really going on. ...

January 13, 2026 · 20 min · 4121 words · Zachary Mitev