Amcrest Technologies — 4 prefixes (MA-L ×3, MA-M ×1)

A MAC address beginning with 00:65:1E, 9C:8E:CD, A0:60:32, or 34:46:63:2 belongs to Amcrest Technologies, typically seen on IP cameras, network video recorders (NVRs), digital video recorders (DVRs), and video doorbells sold under the Amcrest brand.

Amcrest is a Houston, TX-registered security and surveillance equipment maker/distributor. It holds four distinct IEEE MAC-block assignments — three MA-L (24-bit) blocks plus one smaller MA-M (28-bit) block — which is more allocations than a shell registrant typically carries, and points to an actively-shipping hardware vendor rather than a one-off registration.

Independent corroboration comes from vulnerability research: multiple named CVEs (including CVE-2020-5735, CVE-2017-8229, CVE-2017-8227, CVE-2017-8228, CVE-2019-3948, and CVE-2024-12984) document remotely-exploitable flaws in Amcrest-branded IP cameras, NVRs, and DVRs, tying the vendor name to a real, actively-researched consumer/SMB surveillance hardware line.

A secondary claim that Amcrest was founded by former Foscam Digital Technologies staff and that its cameras are manufactured by ShenZhen Foscam is unverified — it traces to a Quora post, not a primary source, and could not be confirmed against amcrest.com or Crunchbase in this pass. It is recorded here only as Unknown, not asserted.

Device class

IP cameras, NVRs, DVRs, video doorbells [Confirmed] — CVE advisories tied to Amcrest-branded hardware

Also seen on

general home/SMB video-surveillance kits sold under the Amcrest brand [Likely] — amcrest.com product line, CVE ecosystem

Block types

3× MA-L (24-bit: 00:65:1E, 9C:8E:CD, A0:60:32), 1× MA-M (28-bit: 34:46:63:2) [Confirmed] — cached IEEE MA-L registry / the IEEE MA-M registry

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes no MAC-prefix registration dates; third-party "date registered" values (e.g. on maclookup.app) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts [Confirmed]

Possible manufacturing link

unverified claim of a Foscam (ShenZhen) origin/manufacturing relationship [Unknown] — single Quora-sourced mention, not corroborated

IEEE assignment

4 prefixes → Amcrest Technologies, registered 16727 Park Row, Houston, TX 77084, US [Confirmed] — cached IEEE MA-L registry / the IEEE MA-M registry (repo registries)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit) ×3 — 00:65:1E, 9C:8E:CD, A0:60:32; MA-M (28-bit, smaller allocation) ×1 — 34:46:63:2 [Confirmed] — cached the IEEE MA-L registry / the IEEE MA-M registry

HQ / country

16727 Park Row, Houston, TX 77084, US (IEEE registry address; independently listed by adminsub.net) [Confirmed for IEEE record; Likely for independent cross-check] — IEEE MA-L registry, https://www.adminsub.net/mac-address-finder/amcrest

Company status

active [Confirmed] — https://amcrest.com/, ongoing CVE research activity through 2024

Device types

IP cameras, NVRs, DVRs, video doorbells [Confirmed] — https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-19363/Amcrest.html

Notable products

Amcrest-branded IP camera, NVR, DVR, and video doorbell lines [Confirmed] — https://amcrest.com/

Verified sample prefixes

00:65:1E, 9C:8E:CD, A0:60:32 (MA-L), 34:46:63:2 (MA-M) [Confirmed] — cached IEEE MA-L registry / the IEEE MA-M registry

Historic block

none identified [Unknown] — no pre-existing/legacy Amcrest allocation found in the sampled registry data

IEEE registration date

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI/MAM data carries no assignment date column; any third-party "date registered" (e.g. maclookup.app: 2016-04-01, 2022-11-11, 2023-04-26, 2024-05-21) is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/amcrest-technologies

Related vendors

possible Foscam (ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology) manufacturing/founding link [Unknown] — unverified, single secondary (Quora) source only

Analyst note

four distinct OUI/MAM assignments plus a multi-year, multi-CVE vulnerability-research trail on Amcrest-branded hardware together establish this as a genuine, actively-shipping surveillance-equipment vendor rather than a bare shell registration.