De-Authentication Attacks on Rogue UAVs

In this new commercial era, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) popularly known as drones have become easily accessible, and their possible unlawful use poses new security threats. Therefore, limiting the illegal use of UAVs in some regions, such as airports, military camps, nuclear power plants, and international borders has become highly recommended. In remote control systems, most commercially available UAVs rely on spread spectrum techniques such as direct sequencing and frequency hopping. This minimizes the impact of interference from adjacent communications systems and increases resistance to jamming.In this research, an efficient mechanism is designed to attack and disconnect Wi-Fi controlled UAVs using Raspberry Pi 3 motherboard (System On Chip-SOC). The proposed technique in this prototype uses the de-authentication process to attack UAVs Wi-Fi module that connects the flight controller in the UAV to the ground control station. The experimental results show this method can effectively be used to cease and disconnect the UAVs operating within a 50 m radius around the proposed prototype without disturbing any other non-target electronic signals around.