Cat shaped hardware hacking with Alex Lynd

Hacker Talk

The hardware hacker, creator of the wifi-nugget, cybersecurity content creator, hak5 host and our guest of honor in this episode of Hacker Talk is Alex Lynd!

In this episode, we cover:

Alex background, working with hak5, content creation

O.MG pentesting cable

Signal intelligence

Wifi hacking

Hardware hacking

Modifying the hardware of calculators, playing games on calculators

Hacking the texas instrument ti 84 calculator

Alex's first computer being the raspberry pi

Starting with Linux

Embedded security

Hardware developer perspective

Making hardware devices

Making low-cost hacking devices

low cost, high availability and effective hacking devices

GPS implants

ESP8266, 3 dollar wifi microcontroller

Wardriving with esp8266

wifi nugget

Making cat-shaped hardware

Making a friendly and portable hardware design

Learning about wifi hacking and microcontrollers

USB nugget

USB rubber ducky

Keystroke injection attacks

ATtiny85 Arduino

Thought process behind creating the wifi nugget

How Filip cracked his neighbors wifi

Aircrack-ng

Airgeddon

Creating a DIY beginner hardware kit

The creation of wifi nugget, the first 100 devices

SpaceHuhn Maker

Wifi Beacon spoofing pranks

esp32 vs esp8266 wifi chip

Crafting custom packets with the esp8266 chip

Espressif Systems trying to stop people from using it's wifi chips for offensive purposes by locking down its software development kit.

Spoofing attacks

esp32 native USB mode

EMulating USB connected devices for data exfiltration

Auto trunked packets

pmkid wifi attack

Cracking wpa2 handshakes

Guessing autogenerated wifi passwords

Hashcat

Password generator based on your local area code

The best password-cracking word list Filip has ever used

Funny pranks with the wifi nugget

Nugget defender, see if anyone is attacking your network

use Canary tokens to detect if someone is breaking into your system

Bugged microsoft word and pdf documents

Having an intrusion detection system in your pocket

wifi honeypots

Getting started designing custom printed circuit boards(PCB)

Design with easyeda

Creating a tv-be-gone

Sourcing pcb boards

Circuit board art

What software to use to create boards

Antenna design

Omni directional antennas

Yagi antennas

Sourcing hardware

Making it more user friendly

Links:

https://alexlynd.com/

https://mg.lol/blog/omg-cable/

https://github.com/HakCat-Tech/WiFi-Nugget

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-plus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

https://hak5.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

https://retia.io/

https://twitter.com/AlexLynd

https://usbnugget.com/

https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATmega328

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino_Nano

https://www.pcboard.ca/mini-attiny85-usb

https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/attiny85-arduino-tutorial

https://github.com/derv82/wifite2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircrack-ng

https://www.kali.org/tools/airgeddon/

https://github.com/SpacehuhnTech/esp8266_deauther

http://deauther.com/

https://spacehuhn.com/

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4529384/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32

https://www.espressif.com/

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/PMKID_Vulnerability_FAQ_-_WPA%2F%2FWPA2-PSK_and_802.11r

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access

https://colab.research.google.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcat

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

https://github.com/HakCat-Tech/Nugget-Invader

https://canarytokens.org/generate

https://easyeda.com/

https://www.pcbway.com/

https://www.kicad.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Semiconductor