TheElon Musk satellite internet, Starlink, is not infallible. The modern satellites of the tycoon’s company were hacked with a device that only costs 25 US dollars. At least this was accomplished by a security researcher.
On portals like wired The information was published in which a researcher from Belgium managed to enter the Starlink terminal. The objective is to alert the company about security alerts on its home Internet terminals. The researcher created a tool that only costs $25 and further said that he would make the tool available for others to try. The researcher, whose name is Lennert Wouters, set out to analyze the hardware vulnerabilities of Starlink satellite dishes. This was what allowed to access the satellite terminal and create your own custom code.
Apparently, “Starlink’s wide availability of user terminals (UTs) exposes it to hardware hackers and opens the door for an attacker to freely explore the network,” Wouters said in his presentation at the Black Hat Security Conference that took place in Las Vegas.
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Starlink, since its inception, has deployed around 3,000 satellites to provide Satellite Internet the most remote areas of the planet. This infrastructure earned him a key opposite in the development of the war between Ukraine and Russia by facilitating the connectivity of troops on the ground. Currently, this company has around 500,000 subscribers worldwide. These hardware vulnerabilities leave the door open for threat actors to gain free rein to access the Starlink system.
The tool used for the hack consists of a custom circuit board (modchip), which is capable of short-circuiting the system through a fault injection attack: this method was used to circumvent the security measures that Starlink has implemented.
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