Drones that don’t have any known security weaknesses could be the target of electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) attacks, potentially enabling a threat actor to gain arbitrary code execution and compromise their functionality and safety.
This could allow an attacker to fully control one device, leak all of its sensitive content, enable ADB access, and potentially leak the encryption keys.
As for mitigations, it’s recommended that drone developers incorporate hardware- and software-based EMFI countermeasures.
This is not the first time IOActive has highlighted uncommon attack vectors that could be weaponized to target systems.
In June 2020, the company detailed a novel method that makes it possible to attack industrial control systems using barcode scanners.
According to the company, this was the first such attack vector they had seen and it showed how an attacker could gain remote control over an entire system.
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