Drone hacking: cybersecurity veteran uses decades of malware expertise to expose flaws

At Black Hat Las Vegas 2025, veteran security expert Mikko Hyppönen sketched a blunt reality: most defensive work goes unnoticed until it fails. That invisibility — and a new battlefield defined by unmanned aircraft — helps explain why one of the field’s oldest voices has shifted from tracking viruses to defending against drones. Hyppönen, whose…