Hackers created a drone that can steal What’s inside your phone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAl1E_oRBR6b7KEyH7gRk3OkXiG5zdJnSdfCrivfzUG_2SWN9WTB0FZXE-zd0EANf07xVTniv2Ahd0r8jbdO0U1MW0tPck8PoLlBBb57-2dDKNwEt5QxTnKkXO8pAMMDar8JCAIPS0oUk/s1600/Hackers-Drone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAl1E_oRBR6b7KEyH7gRk3OkXiG5zdJnSdfCrivfzUG_2SWN9WTB0FZXE-zd0EANf07xVTniv2Ahd0r8jbdO0U1MW0tPck8PoLlBBb57-2dDKNwEt5QxTnKkXO8pAMMDar8JCAIPS0oUk/s1600/Hackers-Drone.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> At this point of time, most of</div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> smartphones are loaded with an</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> important function that requires</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> WiFi service to be activated. Taking</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> advantage of this, Hackers of London</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> have created a drone that is</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> proficient in taking data consists of</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> locations and passwords directly</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> from your smartphone.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The drone uses a codename “Snoopy”</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> that targets busy city streets and</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> specific phones switched on while</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> using the WiFi settings and it is also</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> an advantage for the drone that it</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> uses the common smartphone</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> features and thus, it continuously</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> searches for the networks that are</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> already approved and accessed by a</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> user.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The developer of Snoopy, Glenn</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Wilkinson said in a report of CNN</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> that whenever users will connect</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> their smartphones to Snoopy, they</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> will be shouting and noisily. There</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> shouting would be like this, are you</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> there Starbucks? Are you there</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> McDonald’s?</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Onboard software of snoopy then</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> tries to be a part of the networks that</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> are approved and connects to more</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> than one secured devices at a time,</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> acting as different networks. After</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> connecting to the quadcopter, Snoopy</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> seizes each transmission sent or</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> received by a phone.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> After stopping the individual media</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> access control address of a phone,</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Snoopy is capable of seeing and</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> recording data of sensitive nature</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> such as location, username,</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> passwords or even information</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> about credit card that is more often</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> accessed by accounts or websites.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> “I can have a look at all of your traffic</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> after your phone connects to me, “said</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> by Wilkinson.” I’ve gone through the</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> situation where somebody is searching for</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> ‘Bank X’ cooperate Wi-Fi. In this way, we</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> can be informed that that the concerned</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> person is working at the bank. ”</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> While giving an interview to CNN,</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Snoopy revealed multiple users of</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> smartphones about how they were</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> attacked by the drone, and within</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> the space of an hour gathered the</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> sensitive information and real time</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> GPS location of about 150</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> smartphones. It also collected their</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Yahoo, Amazon and PayPal accounts</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> created for testing purpose.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Daniel Cuthbert and Wilkinson, both</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> belong to SensePost Information</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> security a London based company</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> developed Snoopy, have a plan of</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> presenting their achievements at the</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> cybersecurity conference named as</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Black Hat Asia which to be held in</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Singapore at 25th March.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Like lots of other companies of</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> information security, SensePost</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> completed a test to show the weak</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> points of the technology that we use</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> on daily basis. It is an important</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> research that is being considered as</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> very helpful in preventing the attack</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> of drones permission for the side of</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> the user before entering into a</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> network. It is needed that this</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> function must certainly be switched</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> on after the research of SensePost.</div> </div>

Hackers created a drone that can steal What’s inside your phone

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At this point of time, most of smartphones are loaded with an important function that requires WiFi service to be activated. Taking advantage of this, Hackers of London have created a drone that is p…

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