Satellite modems and how to hack them: attack surface and “pay-to-secure” business model 🛰️📡📶👾👨🏻💻
An international group of academic security experts presented the results of their comprehensive research on off-the-shelf commercial satellite modems last year. The authors mapped security vulnerabilities and attack vectors for this type of equipment.
An interesting detail: encryption on many commercial satellite modems is turned off by default - and sometimes costs extra to enable. As a result, many users never activate encryption, leaving satellite traffic exposed to interception and tampering out of the box. 😲
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More details:
A Comprehensive Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities and Attacks in Satellite Modems [PDF]: https://www.ittc.ku.edu/~bluo/pubs/yu2024ccs.pdf
