A Review on Challenges and Threats to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the most common applications used by many organizations in the present situation. Like every application, there are different issues and challenges with these UAVs also. One of the main cyber threats to UAVs is hijacking, which can be easy with small IoT devices. Also, they lack the privacy of the data which was captured by the UAVs, such as Images, Audio, and Video. This chapter discusses different challenges and threats that cause the tricky to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, such as hijacking, privacy, cyber‐security, and physical safety. The different solutions for avoiding those issues with current technologies are also discussed.