Two security researchers at the recent Def Con conference presented the results of their studies on hacking Parrot drones. Their findings are surprising.
At the recent Def Con conference in Las Vegas, security experts
demonstrated in two different talks how to exploit vulnerabilities in
commercial drones manufactured by Parrot.
In one of the attacks, the researchers were able to shoot down the
aircraft making it fall, the technique was able also to hit the Bebop
model.
The circumstance is disconcerting if we think that an attacker can use the drone to hit a target.
Ryan Satterfield, a security expert from the Planet Zuda firm,
demonstrated a takedown of a Parrot A. R. Drone by exploiting the
drone’s built-in Wi-Fi, the researchers accessed the UAV through an open
Telnet port in the implementation of the BusyBox OS.
The expert connected to the drone through the open port, gaining root
access to the controller, then it was a joke for him to kill the
processes used to control the flight of the drone.
