The tool is a point-and-shoot system, and has a range of some 400 meters. It gains control of the drone, immobilizing it so no remote action can occur. It does so by either disrupting remote control or GPS navigation.
The drone then either lands in the vicinity or flies back to its starting point, and effectively suffers no damage.
Source: Point-and-shoot weapon stops drones without destroying them
The PHP portion included a field for “members” to enter their “secret code” to enter the “private zone,” he explains. “So it’s a good idea to try a SQL injection attack” there, he says of the lure.
“My script had [a] few checks for some patterns, and when a SQL injection attempt was detected, the script [threw the] Java applet, ‘GUI for member zona. Welcome,'” he says. The Java applet then installed a backdoor on the attacker’s Windows machine, he says.
via Honeypot Stings Attackers With Counterattacks – Dark Reading.
In his research paper (PDF) on the experiment, Sintsov explains it this way: “Obviously, reverse penetration has a number of moral, ethical and legal issues