A curated list of resources related to drone hacking containing references to books, papers, blog posts, and other written resources but also tools for interacting with various drones.
- 📌 The 14 best mini drones for 2025 with pros & cons
- 📄 Anatomy of DJI's drone identification implementation
- 📌 Best drones under $200 for beginners
- 🌎 Buildroot making embedded Linux easy
- 📗 A comprehensive approach to countering unmanned aircraft systems
- 🌎 Counter-UAS directory
- 📄 Countering UAS threats
- 📋 CVE-2017-3209 - Anonymous FTP enabled on DBPOWER U818A WIFI quadcopter
- 📃 Drone forensics
- 📄 Drones for penetration testers
- 📊 Game of drones - Putting the emerging drone defense market to the test
- 📊 Hacking drones with dronesploit
- 📋 How to analyze the cyber threat from drones
- 📌 MalDrone - First ever backdoor malware for drones
- 📌 New drone laws in the USA (Updated in 2025)
- 📌 Snoopy drone can hack your smartphones
- 📌 Top 10 des meilleurs mini drones
- 📌 Top 29 drone companies in 2025
- 📰 Analyzing radar cross section signatures of diverse drone models at mmWave frequencies (2020)
- 📓 An approach to simulate malware propagation in the internet of drones (October 2022) 🌟 🌟 🌟
- 📓 Argus: Realistic target coverage by drones (April 2017)
- 📋 Attack vectors and techniques for unmanned aerial systems (August 2020)
- 📰 Breaking down drone forensics: A framework for analyzing UAV evidence (October 2024)
- 📓 Continuous authentication of UAV flight command data using behaviometrics (October 2017)
- 📓 Cyber security threat analysis and modeling of an unmanned aerial vehicle system (November 2012)
- 📰 Cyber4Drone: A systematic review of cyber security and forensics in next-generation drones (June 2023)
- 📓 Description of security impact of drones challenges and opportunities (April 2018)
- 📓 Detection of UAV hijacking and malfunctions via variations in flight data statistics (October 2016)
- 📰 Drone security and the mysterious case of DJI's droneID (March 2023)
- 📰 Drone security: Issues and challenges (May 2021)
- 📓 DroneJack: Kiss your drones goodbye! (June 2017)
- 📕 DroneMap: An ioT network security in internet of drones (February 2021) ⭐ ⭐
- 📰 Drones to manage the urban environment: Risks, rewards, alternatives (February 2016)
- 📓 Finding security vulnerabilities in unmanned aerial vehicles using software verification (September 2019)
- 🎓 Game theoretic solution for the security of unmanned aerial vehicle network host (August 2021) ⭐
- 🎓 Hacking a commercial drone (June 2020)
- 📓 Hacking a commercial drone with open-source software: Exploring data privacy violations (June 2021)
- 📓 Implementation of GPS attacks on DJI phantom 3 standard drone as a security vulnerability test (October 2020)
- 📰 An internet of drones (May 2016)
- 📓 Investigating malware-in-the-loop autopilot attack using falsification of sensor data (June 2021) ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
- 📰 Lasers, jammers, nets, and eagles: Drone defense is still illegal (December 2017)
- 📰 Micro air vehicle link (mavlink) in a nutshell: A survey (June 2019)
- 🎓 Penetration testing of commercial drones and realisation of a drone pentesting framework (June 2019)
- 📰 Privacy and confidentiality issues in drone operations: Challenges and road ahead (July 2024)
- 📰 A review on security issues and solutions of the internet of drones (January 2022)
- 📕 Safety and security issues in employing drones (August 2023)
- 📕 Security threats of unmanned aerial vehicles (August 2023)
- 📰 SoK - Security and privacy in the age of drones: Threats, challenges, solution mechanisms, and scientific gaps (March 2019)
- 📓 SoK: Security and privacy in the age of commercial drones (May 2021)
- 📰 Survey on anti-drone systems: Components, designs, and challenges (March 2021)
- 📓 Towards an architecture for customizable drones (July 2020)
- 📓 Understanding security threats in consumer drones through the lens of the discovery quadcopter family (November 2017)
- 📰 Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) forensics: The good, the bad, and the unaddressed (September 2023)
- AR-Drone - A Node.js client for controlling Parrot AR Drone 2.0 quad-copters.
- DangerDrone
- Drone Browser - Remote control for Parrot AR Drone via browser.
- Drone-Hacks - Remove NFZ & altitude restrictions, and enable FCC with ease.
- Dronesploit - Drone pentesting framework console.
- Kaspersky Anti-Drone - The Kaspersky Antidrone detection and counteraction system lets you detect, classify, and even mitigate various types and classes of civilian UAVs, if such action is necessary and has been authorized.
- MESMER - Counter drone solution.
- Nodecopter Monitor - Remote control for Parrot AR Drone via browser.
- SCI AeroGuard
- SkyJack - A drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take full control over any other Parrot or 3DR drones within wireless or flying distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control.
- Snoopy - A distributed tracking and data interception framework.
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