Drone technology has become ubiquitous, touching almost every aspect of our society. Thus, it is no wonder that malicious actors have now expanded their selfish and criminal pursuits by using drone technology. Currently, these actors commit terrorist acts internationally and domestically, they commit corporate espionage or transport drugs or contraband, and they even violate the privacy of their own neighbors. These are just a few of the many misguided uses of rogue drones. Many researchers in government, corporate, and academia have proposed viable solutions to mitigate the risk associated with this current threat. However, most of these solutions focus on tracking and disrupting the Wi-Fi link between the user and the drone, which may be sufficient for the current threat from Wi-Fi drones, but the future threat is rogue autonomous drones. The use of autonomous drones for rogue purposes poses a more difficult threat to counter since these drones navigate on their own (once given a mission), may not use Wi-Fi at all, and do not require a human in the loop. Given these autonomous drone characteristics, existing user-controlled drone countering tools are ineffective against them and to our knowledge, no other low cost, non-military, and effective counter autonomous drone tools exist. Using DJI drones, which are 74% of the global commercial drone market, in autonomous mode (Active Track), we demonstrate how the use of "hard to patch" vulnerabilities, which break the drone's autonomy code, can be weaponized to design an effective counter autonomous drone tool capable of mitigating one or multiple drones.
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