Hacker groups are on a military-endorsed mission to infiltrate an orbiting U.S. satellite.
Five teams of hackers are competing at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas to remotely seize control of SpaceX satellite Moonlighter, currently spinning in Earth’s low orbit. | NOAA via Getty ImagesLAS VEGAS — Hackers in a desert in the Southwest are lobbing a barrage of cyberattacks at a U.S. government satellite on Friday — and it’s exactly what the Pentagon wanted to happen.
The U.S. Air Force and Space Force are hoping the effort, the first-ever attempt to use hackers to break into a live, orbiting satellite, will help them build more secure space systems and identify security gaps that could be exploited by China or other adversaries. Five teams of hackers are competing at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas to remotely seize control of SpaceX satellite Moonlighter, currently spinning in Earth’s low orbit. Along with trying to break in and build a data link to the satellite, hackers are also trying to keep enemy teams out of their own vulnerable system by using encryption and firewall protections.
The event — which comes with a $50,000 prize for first place — may feel like a fun, sci-fi thriller, but it also reflects the growing danger of America’s enemies developing cyber capabilities to infiltrate and block U.S. defenses. China is developing capabilities to “deny, exploit or hijack” enemy satellites, according to a classified intelligence report among the dozens leaked this spring by an Air guardsman
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