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<\/a><\/p>\nWhile satellites are best known as tools for broadcasting and secure communication, they are also used for Internet access. Their services are mainly used in remote locations where all other means of Internet access are either unstable and slow or totally inoperative.<\/p>\n
One of the most widespread and inexpensive methods of satellite Internet access is an exclusively downlink, with the uplink being via conventional low-speed Internet access.<\/p>\n The use of a satellite internet connection offers undeniable advantages such as anonymity. Indeed, apart from knowing that you are under satellite coverage, it is very difficult if not impossible to physically know your location.<\/p>\n Another advantage of hijacking satellite links is the low cost of hardware investment. Here, hackers have hijacked a DVB-S satellite link. To hijack this type of link, you need the following items, the cost of which is estimated at less than 1000 euros:<\/p>\n PCIe TBS-6922SE card for DVB-S canal receptionThe method is not new. It goes back to the 2010’s with the Skygrabber<\/a> software. A person with a PC and a satellite dish can, with the software, intercept downloads requested by Internet users connected to a satellite. Indeed, the downlink transmitted from the satellite in geostationary orbit to the computer was not encrypted at the time.<\/p>\n The SecureList.com<\/a> site explains the technique very well. The Turla APT group has exploited a weakness of satellite internet connections of the DVB-S type which is that the stream is not encrypted.<\/p>\n The technique used here is not Man-In-The-Middle but IP Spoofing.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\nHow a satellite internet connection is hijacked<\/h2>\n
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