The infamous author of the Samy worm who was convicted for hitting MySpace back in 2005 has decided to take to over the air; Samy Kamkar has engineered a drone to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones that could be under your command.


Dubbed SkyJack, the contraption uses a radio-controlled Parrot AR.Drone quadcopter carrying a Raspberry Pi circuit board, a small battery, and two wireless transmitters. According to ARSTechnica, the devices run a combination of custom software and off-the-shelf applications that seek out wireless signals of nearby Parrot drones, hijack the wireless connections used to control them, and commandeer the victims' flight-control and camera systems. SkyJack will also run on land-based Linux devices and hack drones within radio range. At least 500,000 Parrot drones have been sold since the model was introduced in 2010.



Kamkar gave an overview on his blog of how "awesome" it would be to have his own little "zombie drones" referencing the recent announcement from Amazon regarding the delivery drone program that they are looking to implement within the next couple of years.

The drone war is taking shape nicely.......or at bare minimum you will be able to takeover the Amazon drones and instruct them to bring you free goodies.