A Drone Tale

During the previous months I've been a speaker for various international conferences: Hackinbo (Italy, 26-27 May), Sec-T (Stockholm, 13-14 September) and Hacktivity (Budapest, 12-13 October) with a talk named: "A Drone Tale: All Your Drones Belongs To Us". A talk where I detailed analysed the DJI Phantom 3 model’s architecture , its attack vectors, reverse-engineered the SDK and the network protocol. I also had a specific focus section on Drones Forensics Artefacts Analysis and Methodology. Here you can find and download all...

Hacking the DJI Phantom 3

Finally, during Christmas time, I had some spare time to play with my flying beast; I’m speaking about trying to hack my DJI Phantom 3. It was my first time that I operate with drones or similar embedded system and at the beginning I didn’t have any clue about how I could interact with it. The Phantom 3 comes with an aircraft, controller and an Android/iOS app. Let’s start from the beginning: As a first step, I have analysed the protocols, the connection between...