The Drone Hacker's Handbook

Drones are the fastest-growing attack surface in security. This is the first practitioner's guide to owning them.

There are more drones in the air than ever—delivering packages, inspecting infrastructure, running surveillance, flying combat missions. Almost none of them were designed with attackers in mind. The Drone Hacker's Handbook covers the complete drone attack surface from first principles: flight mechanics and autopilot firmware, RF communications and MAVLink protocol weaknesses, cellular and satellite link exploitation, firmware extraction, and hardware attack vectors. The book builds a virtual lab so you can practice against real drone software before touching hardware. Nick Aleks and Rudy Mendoza bring the same operational practicality to drones that The Car Hacker's Handbook brought to automotive security—a field that didn't have its definitive guide until someone wrote it.