Now you can hijack nearly any drone mid-flight just by using a tiny gadget.
Security researcher Jonathan Andersson has devised a small hardware, dubbed Icarus, that can hijack a variety of popular drones mid-flight, allowing attackers to lock the owner out and give them complete control over the device.
Andersson, who is the manager of Trend Micro’s TippingPoint DVLab division, demonstrated
You may have seen number of viral entertainment videos on the Internet, titled:
Hawk attacks Drone!
Angry Bird takes down Quadcopter,
and the best one…
Eagle attack: Drone Kidnapped by two Eagles,
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…showing eagles, not-so-natural predators, attacking and bringing down drones when someone with a camera tries to invade their private airspace.
Inspired from this:
So how do you catch rogue drones that take your sky?
With another Giant Drone, of course!
This is exactly how the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is catching unwanted and potentially dangerous drones flying over the city, according to Japan Today.
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The department is launching an anti-drone squad in order to prevent people from flying their drones overcrowded
