Russian complaining that Ukrainian FPV combat drones are often infected with computer viruses. Variants include burning out the USB port, preventing reflashing, or hijacking the repurposed FPV and revealing the operator location.

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1. Hehe

2. What is going on here? How does Russia have working Ukrainan drones?

3. Very cool, honestly extremely clever.

4. Nice

5. Self destruct upon capture!

6. The back up payload.

   Glory to Ukraine!

7. “Hey, we found a giant wooden horse outside the gate!!”

   God I love the Ukrainians.

8. From pressure you get diamonds. Well done Ukraine.

9. Russia complains to much. If you invade another country you have no right to complain.

   Get the fuck out of Ukraine.

10. So drop a bunch of usb/drones in a parking lot and they will plug into computer?

11. Trojan horse with Trojan horse virus

12. Good job Ukraine

13. Whiny little sukas,eh?

14. Why in the ever loving opsec would ever try to plug in enemy electronics into your own. Like that seems like one of the dumbest thing you can do.

15. Cheeky!

16. Excellent tradecraft

17. 🤣

18. American Tech Bros: “DEI bad. Mr Reddit pls pull mean posts about me.”
    Ukrainian Tech Bros: “Let’s use our skills to infect the enemy’s drones and reveal their location.”

19. Frankly, the video seems to be a more of a click bait, and from what I could gather:

    1. The drone does physical damage to the USB ports. That’s possible and plausible, would require some modification to the electronics, but essentially like the USB destroyer you could buy on AliExpress, it physically damages the USB data lines by giving a jolt of high voltage on the data line

    2nd they are complaining that the MCU chips are locked down. This is also, plausible and possible. Most of FPV drones are using MCU from STM and it is possible to write the fuses so no further update is possible. Essentially you can’t do a factory reset and flash your own version of the firmware.

    3rd they are saying that even after a factory reset and operators flash their version of the flight firmware, the drone reveals the position of the operator. This is iffy at best, the drone may know where it was launched from, but not really where the operator is. Although, most likely the operator is nearby. Also, this is the most complex and I’m not exactly sure how the drone can communicate that information back to the Ukrainan operators. What channel it could use? Unless Ukrainan ops hacked the GPS firmware and video transmitter firmware to broadcast that data. This is possible but does require more than average experience with the embedded electronics and hardware

20. Pretty easy to avoid with a VM or sandbox.

21. Mind blowing !! The speed of innovation and genius of it is beyond impressive !

22. I love this so much. 👏👏👏🤣

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