Snoopy Drone an unmanned smartphone hacker

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) called Drone will quickly change the way we operate as a society. The Drones already used for surveillance, for airstrikes and surgical precision strikes via satellite, for the distribution and many more. So from today you should know that there are Drones, which can violate it you.

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Security researchers from the British company Sensepoint have developed an unmanned aircraft called "Snoopy." Snoopy can steal data from your Smartphones using fake wireless networks, according to CNN.

To μη επανδρωμένο αεροσκάφος ψάχνει για συσκευές που έχουν ενεργοποιημένο το WiFi και στη συνέχεια, χρησιμοποιώντας την ενσωματωμένη του , αναζητεί με ποια δίκτυα είχε στο παρελθόν το smartphone που στην συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση δεν είναι και τόσο smart. Αφού τα ανακαλύψει προσποιείται ότι είναι ένα από εκείνα τα παλαιά δίκτυα και φυσικά το έξυπνο τηλέφωνο συνδέεται αυτόματα με το of a network it knows.

Spoofing the Wi-Fi networks that the device "remembers" allows Snoopy to connect to targeted Smartphones without any authentication. In technical terms, the Drone uses a “Wireless Evil Twin” to hack smartphones.

Once logged in, Snoopy can access the victim's WiFi, allowing the attacker to remotely acquire login credentials, personal data, and more.
With Snoopy, researchers were able to successfully steal Amazon's login credentials , of Yahoo while flying through the skies of London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWt484AC4E8

The collection of metadata, such as wireless network names and device IDs, is not illegal, but the monitoring and interception of personal data is definitely a violation of the law.

If this technology falls into the hands of criminals (or the government we should add), it can find too many malicious applications. The researchers said they had no malicious intent to develop Snoopy Drone but wanted to prove how vulnerable the Smartphones users are.

If you are worried about such attacks, just disable it of network discovery on your device.

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