Presented at
DEF CON 33 (2025),
Aug. 9, 2025, 11 a.m.
(45 minutes).
The Unmanned Wireless Penetration Testing Device is a modular, open-source system enabling remote wireless security assessments. Using long-range LoRa communication, a mobile rover can perform Wi-Fi reconnaissance, deauthentication attacks, Bluetooth device discovery, and image capture without requiring proximity to the target network. Controlled entirely via encrypted LoRa packets, the system is optimized for secure operations in remote or inaccessible environments. Attendees will see live demonstrations of wireless attacks issued over LoRa and learn how the system can be adapted for mobile and drone-based security operations. Source code and build instructions will be freely available under an open license.
Presenters:
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Ayaan Qayyum
Ayaan is a Master of Science student in electrical engineering at Columbia University. His research interests include mobile computing, applied machine learning, edge AI, digital signal processing, mathematical modeling, and information systems. He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, earning a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering with a minor in mathematics. His technical background spans embedded systems, wireless communication, and hardware security, with certifications in AWS AI and cloud technologies. He has published research across cybersecurity, FPGA systems, and machine learning, including a project on FPGA fast Fourier transform implementation and a machine learning-based stock forecasting model. His work has been recognized at academic conferences such as the IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference and the Rutgers JJ Slade Research Symposium. He is currently a technical research intern at the Intelligent and Connected Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He was a program mentor for the Governor's School of New Jersey designing search-and-rescue drone systems utilizing real-time edge inference. He is passionate about building scalable, open-source security tools and bridging the gap between theory and real-world deployment.
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Omar Hamoudeh
Omar is a wireless security enthusiast and builder who recently completed his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University. His work focuses on embedded systems security, hardware hacking, and wireless exploitation. As part of a senior design project, he developed an unmanned wireless penetration testing rover using LoRa for remote Wi-Fi scanning and reconnaissance. The project earned second place at the 2025 Rutgers ECE Capstone Expo. He also worked extensively on secure architecture projects, including implementing TrustZone on an ARM-based microcontroller to separate secure and non-secure execution environments. In a separate project, he designed a lightweight firmware validation system to detect unauthorized modifications in IoT devices. His current research centers on building low-profile tools for wireless network exploitation and resilience testing.
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