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    Rewterz Threat Alert – Rhadamanthys Stealer – Active IOCs
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    Severity High Analysis Summary The Mirai botnet is a type of malware that infects Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers, security cameras, and other […]
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    Severity High Analysis Summary LockBit ransomware takes as little as five minutes to deploy the encryption routine on target systems once it lands on the victim […]

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    Managed Penetration Testing

    Rewterz penetration testing services help organizations determine if a cyber attacker can gain access to their critical assets while giving them detailed insights of the overall business impact of a cyber attack.

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    Rewterz Threat Alert – Rhadamanthys Stealer – Active IOCs
    Severity Medium Analysis Summary Rhadamanthys is a type of malware known as a stealer, which is designed to steal sensitive information from infected computers. It was […]
    March 21, 2023
    March 21, 2023
    Rewterz Threat Alert – Mirai Botnet aka Katana – Active IOCs
    Severity High Analysis Summary The Mirai botnet is a type of malware that infects Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers, security cameras, and other […]
    March 21, 2023
    March 21, 2023
    Rewterz Threat Alert – LockBit Ransomware – Active IOCs
    Severity High Analysis Summary LockBit ransomware takes as little as five minutes to deploy the encryption routine on target systems once it lands on the victim […]

    Threat Insights

    16
    pdf-file (1)
    Annual Threat Intelligence Report 2022
    • Threat Advisories
    • Monthly Threat Insights
    • Threat Intelligence Reports
  • Why Rewterz?

    About Us

    Before Rewterz got its start, the market was in dire need of a specialized and dedicated information security company. It was nearly impossible for businesses to find a trustworthy provider that could truly cover all of their bases. We wanted to meet this need, giving companies across the globe a chance to get ahead while knowing that their data is in good hands.

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GPS Spoofing / Drone Hacking

January 15, 2012

Iran captured US stealth drone by spoofing its GPS coordinates which tricked the bird to land within the Iranian territory instead of where it was actually programmed to land. The actual landing zone of the drone was Afghanistan, but with the proudly claimed method by Iranian engineers only a few months back, the drone’s GPS was reconfigured and made it land in Iran.

Iran has a long border with Afghanistan and NATO monitors it for weapon smuggling into Afghanistan. Three years ago the Iranians claimed that they had designed their own drone that had a range of 300 miles and could reach Israel. The stealth plane has been built with very sophisticated technology. It is the same kind of stealth plane that was monitoring the US raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. This is a $6 million stealth plane manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

According to the US officials, RQ in its name means that it is unarmed and some industry experts who have written about the Sentinel stealth is that its design makes it more of an operational platform not an intelligence gathering aircraft. It was used to fly support during the Bin Laden raid. Nonetheless, according to the Iranian news, the drone was shot down and recovered almost completely intact which goes as a warning to the US.

An unnamed Iranian engineer has been working on the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel who confirmed that the spoofing method that was used allowed the Iranians to divert the landing of the bird according to where they wanted it to land, that too without hacking into the remote-control signals of the American control centre.

The US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth captured by Iran

US military officials have feared the GPS weakness of aircraft for a long time. According to the US officials, this kind of attack is much more sophisticated than jamming since it is executed under cover and there is no way to find out until the spoofing has already been done. The attack allows the GPS receiver to send wrong GPS signals which makes believe that it is located somewhere in space where as in reality it actually isn’t. The US officials claim their loss of their drone to be a malfunction from their end.

According to the Iranian engineer, he claims that the GPS navigation is the weakest point. Once the bird has been “jammed” through sending noise over the communications, the bird automatically goes into autopilot mode and doesn’t know what to do next. It can then be commanded to do whatever the controller wants it to.

Not a single current GPS system is “spoof proof” due to several reasons. The main reason being it is almost impossible to validate consistently on a “one way” communications channel because of “replay attacks”. Therefore they all require an additional channel of some type that is not possible to jam.

According to some sources, claims have been made that Iran has sold the stealth to China so that China may undertake serious investigations. However, this has still not been confirmed.

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