Digital Cats and PWNLab MX have unveiled their newest cybersecurity device — simply in time for DEF CON 32. The Minino is a multi-protocol and multi-band system for sniffing 2.4GHz communications and probing Web of Issues (IoT) gadgets. The ESP32-C6-driven Minino is flexible and extremely cute with its kitty-shaped printed circuit board.
Minino (📷: Digital Cats)
Minino helps you to work together with 5 IoT applied sciences: Bluetooth Low Vitality (BLE), Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee, Thread, and Matter. Its devoted GNSS radio additional enhances its capabilities by permitting Minino to obtain alerts from GPS, QZZ, Beidou, Galileo, and GLONASS satellite tv for pc constellations.
GPS Demo with antennas as Whiskers (📷: Digital Cats)
The circuit board doesn’t have any onboard or chip antennas; as an alternative, the GPS radio and the ESP32 module each have u.FL connectors for exterior antennas. Despite the fact that the antennas come out behind the Cat PCB’s ears, they resemble a Cat’s whiskers. In the meantime, the board’s entrance aspect has 4 push buttons and a 128×64-pixel OLED display screen for a person interface. Minino is powered by three AAA battery cells, making it appropriate as a badge (add-on) for a convention.
You would possibly acknowledge Digital Cats from their IoT device, CatSniffer. That system centered on sub-1 GHz alerts however it has a strong toolset for analyzing packets. Minino is suitable with the identical evaluation instruments as CatSniffer and helps the broadly used Wireshark software program. A microSD card socket additionally lets you log packet captures as pcap recordsdata for detailed (offline) evaluation.
Minino bottom render (📷: James Lewis)
Digital Cats and PWNLab MX have open-sourced the Minino so that you could obtain the design recordsdata from this GitHub repository. You may also purchase one from Digital Cats. At the moment, Minino is offered with a 30% pre-order low cost, or $35. If you’re attending DEF CON 32 (Thursday, August eighth to Sunday, August eleventh), you possibly can elect to choose it up immediately from Digital Cats on the convention.