In May, Musk said that Russia was intensifying its attempts to disrupt the Starlink internet service in Ukraine. Now, a researcher has managed to hack Elon Musk's Starlink system with a $25 homemade device.
A $25 home-made device was used by a cyber-security researcher to break into the Elon Musk-operated Starlink satellite-based internet network, reports Business Standard.
Lennert Wouters, a security researcher from Belgium, unveiled the first-ever hacking of satellite dishes or user terminals for Starlink that are installed in homes and other structures.
Wouters used a home-made circuit board, or modchip, that cost about $25 to manufacture to effectively breach the Starlink internet system at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, according to Wired.
In order to breach the dish and investigate the Starlink network, Wouters used a voltage fault injection attack on a Starlink User Terminal (UT).
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