Wardriving Evolves Into Warflying
Yesterday at Black Hat, two security researchers demonstrated how a radio-controlled model airplane outfitted with a computer and 4G connectivity could be used to create a nearly undetectable aerial hacking device that could perpetrate aerial attacks on targets otherwise unreachable by land.
Created completely with off-the-shelf equipment and open-source software -- and with a budget of only about $6,100 -- the demo plane they brought on stage with them was capable of wireless network sniffing and cracking, cell tower spoofing, cell phone tracking and call interception, data exfiltration, and video surveillance.
"There is some really evil stuff you can do from the sky," said Mike Tassey, who together with Richard Perkins spent more than 1,300 hours building, testing, and refining the device they call the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (WASP).
