"...This week, The Register reported on a drone attack that happened over the summer... While investigating the incident, security personnel discovered two drones on the roof of the building... The Matrice drone was outfitted with a penatration kit (pen kit) consisting of a Raspberry Pi, a GDP mini laptop, a 4G modem, a WiFi device, and several batteries. The Phantom drone carried a network penetration testing device developed by Hak5 called a WiFi Pineapple... ...the bad actors used the Phantom a few days before the attack to intercept an employee's credentials and WiFi. They then coded the stolen information into the Matrice drone's penetration equipment..." https://www.techspot.com/news/96321...enetrate-financial-firm-network-remotely.html
Yes, these hackers were quite confident, I wonder what was their main goal, they invested at least €15.000 in this attack.
I just don't get it. All these little mobile helicopters seem would be easy to not only detect but disrupt if that's the choice. I remember some years ago now meeting with a neighbor of mine who was really into remote propeller planes and if it wander out of range right down it would go. Which means there must be a ton of a variety of frequencies each one transmitting something etc
I guess it was about the element of surprise. But I would like to know more about how they intented to hack into the financial firm's network. I mean, you normally don't need a drone in order to plant malware on systems. But seems they tried to intercept credentials by hacking into the WIFI network, or something like that.
Likewise. Would like to know more about such antics because if even not as effective as they make the incident out to be, it does drive curiosity on what went into such a bold WEIRD plan and method intended to carry it out.
