Track WiFi Devices from the Air with a WarFlying Drone

Alex Lynd demonstrates how a drone can be used for aerial WiFi reconnaissance, using an improvised $15 WarDriving rig strapped to the bottom of a Mavic Pro drone - and how we can track down the location of known wifi devices from the air. This video is sponsored by PCBWay, whose PCB manufacturing & assembly services can be found over at www.pcbway.com/
On this episode of HakByte, we explore WarFlying for the first time, and use Jupyter Notebook to create visual maps of the data we captured.
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Links:
WarFlying Github Demo + Data: github.com/AlexLynd/ESP8266-W...
Alex's GitHub: github.com/AlexLynd
Alex's Twitter: / alexlynd
Alex's Website: alexlynd.com
Alex's KZbin: ‪@AlexLynd‬
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Chapters:
Intro ‪@AlexLynd‬ : 00:00
What is WarDriving? 00:17
$15 ESP8266 WarFlying Rig 00:43
Drone WiFi Recon Experiment 00:54
PCBWay Ad 01:38
Cleaning our Data in Python Pandas 01:51
Visualize WiFi Recon w/ Folium Maps 03:55
Track & Map Victim Devices 06:42
Drone Footage Review + Results 07:58
Interactive Encryption Map 08:41
Recap + Outro 10:09
Bloopers :) 11:02
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[@Kattakam]

I’ve seen flying squirrel with a caribou module used before. This is perfect for open source dyi learning

[@adamc8857]

You guys make great content! the behind the scenes footage at the end was fantastic

[@full_bearfull_bear4783]

Super cool project. - Thanks for sharing.

[@ervinslens]

Great video, stay safe.

[@raatexploit5041]

Fantastic

[@TrollingAround]

Good job.

[@Genesis.X.Nemesis]

very nice💯

[@lowcorrelation]

Must be one hell of a nic to pick up those ssids from the park 😲

[@midimusicforever]

Cool and scary.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@MatthewHensley8304 what a hero he was

[@orionkanat6680]

Epic

[@fotografm]

Brilliant ! Keep making videos !!!

[@josecarrillo2002]

Thanks for sharing, great content , please throw a video about hackrf, 👊

[@captainkatz1775]

Was just looking into making a custom drone, now I'm bout to order the parts for sure 😈

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

It's kinda like watchdogs, only this is network engineering in Reality

[@TheRazackk]

calculate the position of the wifi based on gps cords and rssi would be intressting

[@mustaphayarimamusa5789]

Hi Alex, You're really doing a great job on hacking stuff. Please do you have any work on network traffic analysis for IDS. Thanks .

[@__________________________6910]

Noice !

[@Cre8tiv3]

how do I track down a drone and the pilot someone is constantly flying one over my house today I noticed it when I looked up and it took off fast

[@roytelling6540]

I am 60 years old and I want to lean python? but I have dyslexia (hate my brain sometime LoL) can anyone PLEASE help me with a website I can go with video teaching? as reading for me is a nightmare I have used spell checker many time writing this. I have a good brain but letter just get mixed up in my head. I NOT TO OLD TO LEARN LoL BUT I am to young to stop learning

[@nandulalkrishna923]

Also there are so many free udemy courses

[@davidt1621]

Yeah, he's not the first one to think of this, but it's only useful for places outside of your line of sight. Everything else, and even some outside your LOS, could be reached from a stationary position with a wifi antenna attached to a small old satellite tv dish. Speculatively, I suppose if you're mobile, like in a vehicle in a public place, then a drone would be better than riding around with a sat-dish on the roof or in the seat of the vehicle. This is all very unnecessary though, unless you're up to no good.

[@peterhindes56]

Do it with Bluetooth to track phones

[@hak5]

This is a cool idea!

[@nighthawkviper6791]

@@hak5 That would be bluetooth mesh networking and no you mcmaynerberries don't need to be teaching losers how to hack their neighbors but I guess it was going to be found out anyway. Maybe do one on Air Gapping or MAGNETO methods to hack through faraday cages/bags. That would be a "cool idea". .

[@MelaninMagdalene]

Ha!

[@paullee107]

Is it possible to cover wifi pineapple, using it- all of its functions in a video? I have one… I’m not completely dumb but… don’t use it as much as I’d like.

[@upsty6499]

Wouldn't the best option be to not play the game, Ted Kaczinski said it well in his manifesto and boy was he right.

[@swiftheadkick]

fun fact: adding anything to that drone makes it over weight where you have to register it

[@atdit]

fun fact: nobody cares about drone regulations

[@richardbeato9392]

narc

[@nighthawkviper6791]

great now dweebles have drtboxes

[@budprepper3811]

Ok, when wifi netwoks were open, I cared and used them. Now, who cares? Everything is secure, I use my phone and could care less about wifi anything. What am I missing??

[@richardbeato9392]

its more about being able to do it than about how practical it is. There is way more you could do.