New 'Snoopy' Drone Hacks Your Phone
The "Snoopy" drone will send a fake signal disguised as a trusted network and intercept everything being sent and received on a device including sites visited, credit card information, location data, usernames and passwords.
New drone technology that can steal the contents of your smartphone is being presented at next week’s Black Hat Asia cybersecurity conference in Singapore, reports CNN.com.
The “Snoopy” drone can access mobile devices with Wi-Fi settings turned on, taking advantage of a built-in feature on smartphones and tablets that looks for previous networks when a device tries to connect to the Internet.
Snoopy will send back a fake signal disguised as a trusted network and intercept everything being sent and received including sites visited, credit card information, location data, usernames and passwords.
“Their phone will very noisily be shouting out the name of every network it’s ever connected to,” Sensepost security researcher Glenn Wilkinson told CNN.
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