The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) called Drone will quickly change the way we operate as a society. The Drones are already being used for surveillance, air raids, and satellite precision surgical impacts, for the distribution of pizza and more. From today you should know that there are Drones, which can violate it Smartphones you.
Ερευνητές ασφαλείας από την Βρετανική εταιρεία Sensepoint ανέπτυξαν ένα μη επανδρωμένο αεροσκάφος που ονομάζεται “Snoopy.” Το Snoopy μπορεί να υποκλέψει δεδομένα από το Smartphones σας χρησιμοποιώντας πλαστή ασύρματα networks, as reported by CNN.
The unmanned aircraft is looking for devices that have WiFi enabled, and then using its built-in technology, it looks with which networks it has accessed in the past the smartphone, which in this case is not that smart. Once discovered, it pretends to be one of those old networks, and of course the smart phone automatically connects to the name 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 attack “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, the researchers managed to successfully capture Amazon's connection credentials, PayPal, Yahoo while flying in the sky of London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWt484AC4E8
The collection of metadata, like wireless network names and device IDs aren't illegal, but tracking and intercepting personal data certainly breaks the law.
If this technology falls into the hands of criminals (or the government we should add), it can find many malicious applications. The researchers said they had no malicious intent in developing the Snoopy Drone, but wanted to demonstrate how vulnerable the users of Smartphones.
If you are concerned about such attacks, simply disable the automatic network finder feature on your device.
