Sorry, Your Drone is Pwned
Samy Kamkar, a guy with a past πŸ˜‰ has set his mind to an exploit which many just might have been toying with - subverting drones (well, if you think like me). His Skyjack drone sniffs wireless signals sent out by a target drone, then injects his own WiFi packets into the target drone’s connection, de-authenticates the target drone from its legitimate controller, and then re-authenticates it to the Skyjack drone, establishing it as the controller. Running on a Raspberry Pi, there is the germ of an idea here which, once realised, could create a drone mini-army. Here's Samy's video: This isΒ  the low-budget hardware and software he used: SkyJack: http://samy.pl/skyjack Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Parrot AR.Drone 2: http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ Aircrack-ng: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ Node.js: http://nodejs.org/ node-ar-drone: https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone Alfa AWUS036h wifi card: http://www.alfa.com.tw/products_show.... Edimax EW-7811Un wifi card: http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_deta... Now, go to sleep tonight dreaming of how you will takeover Amazon drones delivering champagne, diamonds and exquisite chocolates. I suspect in my dream I will mistakenly hijack a drone delivering babies' nappies. I suppose that's the way it goes in reality πŸ˜‰