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.
Security researchers from the British company Sensepoint has developed a drone called “Snoopy.” Snoopy can intercept data from your Smartphones using fake wireless networks, CNN reports.
The drone looks for WiFi-enabled devices and then, using its built-in technology, looks up which networks it has been connected to access in the past the smartphone which in this particular case is not so smart. After discovering them it pretends to be one of those old networks and of course the smart phone automatically connects to a network name 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, the researchers managed to successfully capture Amazon's connection credentials, PayPal, Yahoo while flying in the sky of London.
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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 it Snoopy Drone, but wanted to prove how vulnerable Smartphone users are.
If you are concerned about such attacks, simply disable the automatic network finder feature on your device.
