![]() ![]() With all of these add-ons, your tiny computer probably costs around $100, which is still a small price to pay to launch an attack. Sure, it might be discovered sitting on a network port (maybe, and even then it may take a while), on a switch or a router, but many of these boards come with Wi-Fi functionality, so you can take your time and run a series of wireless attacks to gain network access, even spoofing a legitimate MAC address to pretend to be another computer on the network. With a couple of small ARM-based platforms equipped with cheap machine-to-machine data cards, you now have a server that can be embedded into a hostile environment that will phone home and establish a communication session so you can maintain persistence on the network. It’s no surprise really, that deploying a $35 single board computer running server software that can connect to a network can be used as a fire-and-forget attack platform, and at that price you don’t really care about it being discovered. ![]() This year at Black Hat, tiny automated hacking platforms are everywhere, loaded with tasty purpose-built tools that can be used to break into your systems.
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