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Wednesday, 04 December 2013 / Published in Woo on Tech

Hacker Drone hacks and enslaves other drones

Parrot AR Drone

Just in time to ride the publicity wave created by Amazon Prime’s Delivery Drones, infamous MySpace hacker Samy Kamkar has created a flying drone that can hack other drones and take over control of them. Before you grab your bug-out bag and head to that bunker in Montana, it may ease your fears somewhat to understand the drones in question are of the toy variety, versus the death-dealing military variety. The popular Parrot AR Drone is controlled from an iPad or iPhone via unencrypted Wi-Fi, a feature that Mr. Kamkar takes full advantage of in his miniature drone predator, aptly dubbed, “Skyjack“.

What this means for you:

While Skyjack is a long ways away from hacking the various UCAVs that are in extensive use around the world, it’s not hard to imagine how this could escalate the high-tech arms race fueled by the highly-publicized arrival of combat drones in the Afghanistan invasion. The idea behind Skyjack is a drone that can hunt out other Parrot AR Drones autonomously and enslave them. Fly Skyjack into a park where enthusiastic drone pilots are taking their Parrots for a spin, and the more unscrupulous Skyjack pilot can steal away the $300 devices in a blinking of an LED. Now extend that idea to a drone that can fly around neighborhoods, hunting out unsecured Wi-Fi networks or routers, hacking them, logging their locations, and then returning to its owner with map and database of ripe targets. Have I frightened you enough yet to get you to change the password on your home router to something a bit harder to guess?

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.org

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Tagged under: combat drone, drones, hacker, Hacking, parrot ar drone, passwords, security, skyjack, toy, ucav, wi-fi

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