Two hackers have developed a drone turned to attack on phones. The ‘helikoptertje’ occurs as the mast of a provider, so that all calls through the ‘mast’ walk and can be monitored.
The ‘helikoptertje’ makes use of already detected hacks to calls to listen in on and wireless networks, sniffing and has a storage memory of 32GB to bugged data to store, writes Forbes. The hackers show their findings on the Black Hat, a conference next week in Las Vegas is held, and where hackers together their latest inventions.
The colossus weighs 7 pounds and is made of an old unmanned aircraft of the American army. Business view is a hd camera, while a sim card from T-Mobile calls to be picked up automatically to the network routes. The whole thing is powered by a small Linux-based computer. The drone contains a variety of Black Hat and Defcon shown hacktechnieken, such as posing as a cell tower providers AT&T and T-Mobile. The hackers call it a ‘flying Black Hat Greatest Hits’.
The hackers Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins have this built to demonstrate that with this technique it is possible confidential communication to catch on, for example, legerbases and government buildings. However, they have ensured that the drone had not been abused could be. He is only in testing environments, tried and works on frequencies which are free to use. Also will the drone itself not be demonstrated at Black Hat, but will only talk about it.