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ARTICLE | August 9, 2018

IoT Malware Discovered Trying to Attack Satellite Systems of Airplanes, Ships

Dark Reading – Researcher Ruben Santamarta shared the details of his successful hack of an in-flight airplane Wi-Fi network – and other findings – at Black Hat USA today.

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Ruben Santamarta was flying from Madrid to Copenhagen in November 2017 on a Norwegian Airlines flight when he decided to inspect the plane’s Wi-Fi network security. So he launched Wireshark from his laptop and began monitoring the network.

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