UAV Cybersecurity Materials 
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A curated list of papers and technical posts related to UAV cybersecurity research.
Table of Contentsξ
- General
- Compromised Component
- Protocol-Based Attacks
- Sensor-Based Attacks
- Jammers
- Drone Purpose Detection
- Drone Authentication and Identification
- Drone Detection
- Secure Communication
- Others
- Copyright
Generalξ
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Security, Privacy, and Safety Aspects of Civilian Drones: A Survey. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 2017
Compromised Componentξ
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dr0wned β Cyber-Physical Attack with Additive Manufacturing. USENIX WOOT 2017
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Tractor Beam: Safe-hijacking of Consumer Drones with Adaptive GPS Spoofing. ACM TOPS 2019.
Protocol-Based Attacksξ
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An Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Attack Scenario and Trustworthy Repair Architecture. IEEE/IFIP DSN-W 2016.
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Continuous Authentication of UAV Flight Command Data using Behaviometrics. IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC 2017.
Sensor-Based Attacksξ
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Using Program Analysis to Synthesize Sensor Spoofing Attacks. ACM ASIACCS 2017
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GyrosFinger: Fingerprinting Drones for Location Tracking Based on the Outputs of MEMS Gyroscopes. ACM TOPS 2019.
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Controlling UAVs with Sensor Input Spoofing Attacks. USENIX WOOT 2016
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All Your GPS Are Belong To Us Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems. USENIX Security 2018
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Injected and Delivered: Fabricating Implicit Control over Actuation Systems by Spoofing Inertial Sensors. USENIX Security 2018
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Rocking Drones with Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors. USENIX Security 2015
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Detecting Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles: A Control Invariant Approach. ACM CCS 2018
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WALNUT: Waging Doubt on the Integrity of MEMS Accelerometers with Acoustic Injection Attacks. IEEE EuroS&P 2017
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A Friendly and Low-Cost Technique for Capturing Non-Cooperative Civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IEEE Network 2018
Jammersξ
Many companies have developed UAV Jammers, such as: Battelle, Bilghter, CTS - Computer Technology Solutions, DroneShield, SESP Group, etc.
Drone Purpose Detectionξ
How can we tell whether the drone is being used for a legitimate purpose (e.g., delivering pizza) or an illegitimate purpose (e.g., taking a peek at a person showering in his/her own house)?
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Drones’ Cryptanalysis - Smashing Cryptography with a Flicker. IEEE S&P 2019
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Game of Drones - Detecting Streamed POI from Encrypted FPV Channel. Arxiv 2018
Drone Authentication and Identificationξ
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IDrone: Robust Drone Identification through Motion Actuation Feedback. ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2018.
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WiWho: WiFi-Based Person Identification in Smart Spaces. IEEE/ACM ISPN 2016.
Drone Detectionξ
Radarξ
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35 GHz FMCW drone detection system. IEEE IRS 2016
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Flight-test evaluation of small form-factor LiDAR and radar sensors for sUAS detect-and-avoid applications. IEEE/AIAA DASC 2016
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Classification of small UAVs and birds by micro-Doppler signatures. IEEE European Radar Conference 2013
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Digital television based passive bistatic radar system for drone detection. IEEE RadarConf 2017
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Micro-Doppler based detection and tracking of UAVs with multistatic radar. IEEE RadarConf 2016
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Industry:
RF Scanner & Spectrum Analyzerξ
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Machine Learning-Based Delay-Aware UAV Detection and Operation Mode Identification over Encrypted Wi-Fi Traffic. IEEE TIFS 2019
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Wi-Fly?: Detecting Privacy Invasion Attacks by Consumer Drones. NDSS 2017
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Matthan: Drone Presence Detection by Identifying Physical Signatures in the Droneβs RF Communication. ACM MobiSys 2017
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Cost-Effective and Passive RF-Based Drone Presence Detection and Characterization. ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications 2017
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Investigating Cost-effective RF-based Detection of Drones. ACM DroNet 2016
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Detection of LSSUAV using hash fingerprint based SVDD. IEEE ICC 2017
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Detection and Localization of Small Drones Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf FPGA Based Software Defined Radio Systems. IEEE COMM 2018
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Cost-Effective NLOS Detection for Privacy Invasion Attacks by Consumer Drones. IEEE/AIAA DASC 2019
Optical and Computer Visionξ
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Detection of unmanned aerial vehicles using a visible camera system. Applied Optics 2017
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Flying objects detection from a single moving camera. IEEE CVPR 2015
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A trajectory tracking and 3D positioning controller for the AR.Drone quadrotor. IEEE ICUAS 2014
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Using Shape Descriptors for UAV Detection. Electronic Imaging 2018
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A study on detecting drones using deep convolutional neural networks. IEEE AVSS 2017
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Using deep networks for drone detection. Arxiv 2017
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Flight Dynamics-Based Recovery of a UAV Trajectory Using Ground Cameras. IEEE CVPR 2017
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Aerial and surface security applications using lidar. SPIE Laser Radar Technology and Applications XXIII 2018
Acousticξ
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Real-time uav sound detection and analysis system. IEEE SAS 2017
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Drone sound detection by correlation. IEEE SACI 2016
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A Surveillance System for Drone Localization and Tracking Using Acoustic Arrays. IEEE SAM 2018
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Passive acoustic system for tracking low-flying aircraft. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation 2016
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Feature extraction for acoustic classification of small aircraft. IEEE WASPAA 2015
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Low-Cost Acoustic Array for Small UAV Detection and Tracking. IEEE NAECON 2008
Secure Communicationξ
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Dronecrypt - An Efficient Cryptographic Framework for Small Aerial Drones IEEE MILCOM 2018
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IoD-Crypt: A Lightweight Cryptographic Framework for Internet of Drones (github: https://github.com/ozgurozmen/IoD-Crypt) ArXiv 2019
Othersξ
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Xerox Day Vulnerability IEEE TIFS 2018
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Position-Attitude Prediction Based Beam Tracking for UAV mmWave Communications IEEE ICC 2019
Copyrightξ
This list is released into the public domain.