AnonSec Attempts to Crash a $222.7 Million Drone — NASA Hacked

While grabbing data dumps are par for the course when it comes to network intrusions like this, AnonSec attempted a rather bold move via a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack to upload a new, malicious flight plan for the Global Hawk so that it would crash into the ocean. Sinema Blaze The hackers then secretly programmed the NAS devices to quietly send a copy of all the flight logs out to the hackers’ server outside Nasa’s network, but when they looked at the flight logs, they realised that part of the data they were receiving consisted of pre-planned route files for Nasa’s Global Hawk drones. As of this writing, there’s no mention of AnonSec on the NASA website. The statement also said the space agency “had no evidence to indicate the allegedly hacked data” released by the group “are anything other than already publicly available data”. James Scott, senior fellow and co-founder of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, shared, “This is just a claim at this stage and that is very important for people to understand”. Allard Beutel, acting director of NASA’s news and multimedia division, in an email denied the group’s assertions about the drone, and said the alleged breach is being investigated. “The screenshots that are supposedly from the drones flight pattern can easily be fraudulently designed”. For the full article click here 

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