"Hacker and security analyst Samy Kamkar on Tuesday published details about SkyJack, which he said "is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control." To make his vision of a zombie drone army a reality, Kamkar used a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, a Raspberry Pi, a USB battery, an Alfa AWUS036H wireless transmitter, aircrack-ng, node-ar-drone, node.js, and his SkyJack software."
""I developed a drone that flies around, seeks the wireless signal of any other drone in the area, forcefully disconnects the wireless connection of the true owner of the target drone, then authenticates with the target drone pretending to be its owner, then feeds commands to it and all other possessed zombie drones at my will," Kamkar wrote on his website."
SkyJack is a drone system that autonomously locates and takes control of nearby Parrot-model drones over WiFi, converting them into a network of controlled 'zombie' drones. The setup uses a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, Raspberry Pi, USB battery, Alfa AWUS036H wireless transmitter, and software components including aircrack-ng, node-ar-drone, and node.js. The program forces disconnection of legitimate controllers, authenticates to target drones by spoofing ownership, and issues commands to multiple compromised drones. The system detects targets by Parrot MAC address OUIs and can be executed from a Linux machine or small computer. The SkyJack code is published on GitHub.
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