Introduction to Cyber-Warfare

Chapter 10

How Iraqi Insurgents Watched U.S. Predator Video—Information Theft on the Tactical Battlefield

Outline

Introduction

The Predator UAV

Hacking the Predator Feed

The Predator’s Vulnerability

Wireless Networks

Attribution and the Kata’ib Hezbollah

The History of the Predator Vulnerability

Summary

Suggested Further Reading

Information in This Chapter

• The Predator UAV

• Hacking the Predator feed

• The Predator’s vulnerability

• Attribution and the Kata’ib Hezbollah

• The history of the Predator vulnerability

Introduction

In Chapter 7, we discussed acts of cyber espionage that suggest Chinese involvement. These operations focused on either massive data exfiltration for the purposes of stealing intellectual property and industrial information ...