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A hacker developed Maldrone, the first malware for drones

  • 27 January 2015
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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This sounds like a good follow up to last nights story about The White House Drone landing drags White House security into the modern era
 
by Pierluigi Paganini on January 27th, 2015
 
 
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Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone.

The diffusion of drones is alerting government and authorities, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used more frequently in different sectors.
The security of drones in both military and commercial uses is crucial, these flexible vehicles could be turned in war machines and abused by threat actors to compromise a target.
 
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Rahul Sasi has tested the malware on the DJI Phantom and Parrot AR.Drone 2.0.
At Nullcon next week in Goa, India, Citrix security engineer Rahul Sasi plans to demonstrate new drone-hacking malware called Maldrone.
 
The malware, Sasi says, kills the auto pilot, takes control of the drone, connects back to a botmaster and waits for commands. He's tested Maldrone on the DJI Phantom and Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
 
This isn't the first time a drone has been hacked -- back in 2012, University of Texas professor Todd Humphreys and a team of students used GPS spoofing to take control of a drone -- but Sasi says Maldrone is the first-ever malware backdoor for drones.
  A YouTube video shows Sasi using the malware to disable a drone's autopilot and sending it dropping to the ground. Full Article
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