When hackers took down the power grid in parts of Ukraine last year, local authorities sent operators to manually switch on power, coordinating the recovery efforts via cellphone. But what if the attackers could jam the cellphone network—perhaps using drones?
That’s the hypothetical, though realistic, scenario that a security researcher posited on Wednesday during a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. In the future, warned researcher Jeff Melrose, drones will be used to support and amplify cyberattacks against critical infrastructure.
Using drones, “all kinds of attacks on field telemetry and sensors not only become affordable but doable,” Melrose, who is the senior principal tech strategist for the security arm of Yokogawa, told me in an interview ahead of his talk. “I can have several of these [drones] basically blanket an area and you wouldn’t receive anything from that particular section of your plant or pipeline.” For the full article click here
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