SATCOM Terminals - Hacking by Air, Sea, and Land

Explore the vulnerabilities in Satellite Communications (SATCOM) terminals through this comprehensive Black Hat conference talk. Dive into the critical role of SATCOM in global telecommunications and the potential security risks associated with Earth station terminals. Learn about the analysis of devices from leading SATCOM vendors used to access various services, including Inmarsat-C, BGAN, FleetBroadBand, and more. Discover the alarming findings that 100% of examined devices could be abused, with vulnerabilities ranging from backdoors and hardcoded credentials to insecure protocols and weak encryption algorithms. Understand the implications of these security flaws, which allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to fully compromise affected products, sometimes without user interaction. Gain insights into the technical details of the research, primarily based on static firmware analysis through reverse engineering, and witness a live demonstration against one of the vulnerable systems. Recognize the potential impact on ships, aircraft, military personnel, emergency services, media services, and various industrial facilities, highlighting the urgent need for improved security measures in SATCOM infrastructure.