![]() ![]() ![]() In a penetration test on a client's network, Nve used a Skystar 2 PCI satellite receiver card, a piece of hardware that can be bought onįor $30 or less, along with open source Linux DVB software applications and the network data analysis or "sniffing" tool Wireshark.Įxploiting that signal, Nve says he was able to impersonate any user connecting to the Internet via satellite, effectively creating a high-speed, untraceable anonymous Internet connection that that can be used for nefarious online activities. "Anyone can do it: phishers or Chinese hackers … it's like a very big Wi-Fi network that's easy to access." "What's interesting about this is that it's very, very easy," says Nve. And while that's not a particularly new trick-hackers have long been able to intercept satellite TV or other sky-borne signals-Nve also went a step further, describing how he was able to use satellite signals to anonymize his Internet connection, gain access to private networks and even intercept satellite Internet users' requests for Web pages and replace them with spoofed sites. Using less than $75 in tools, Nve, a researcher with security firm S21Sec, says that he can intercept Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) signals to get free high-speed Internet. In a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Spanish cybersecurity researcher Leonardo Nve presented a variety of tricks for gaining access to and exploiting satellite Internet connections.
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