Wardriver Labs

Labs is the research arm of Wardriver Security, where the offensive R&D happens, and where the company's origin lives. The discipline here is the same one we bring to every client: prove it, don't claim it.

The Wardriver Project, KITT, made real

It started as a Knight Rider tribute: a car that could think and hack. When the factory head unit was too old to run the tools, we went aftermarket and turned a 2021 Honda Civic Type R into a fully mobile penetration-testing lab running Kali NetHunter. No root, no hardware mods. Kali Linux featured it in the official 2026.1 release ("…turned his Civic Type-R into a pentesting tool using Kali NetHunter rootless on 4 wheels"), with additional OffSec coverage and a guest spot on the Kali NetHunter Podcast (Episode 3), the first Kali NetHunter Automobile ever built.

A new vulnerability class: Bring-Your-Own-Vehicle (BYOV)

What began as a cool build turned into a finding. Modern infotainment systems on Android Automotive OS let anyone sideload a full Linux pentest environment with consumer-level access. No root, no exploit. It isn't a zero-day; it's misuse-by-design: legitimate features that quietly turn cars into mobile offensive platforms, on systems that often share a bus with the engine, brakes, and steering. The shift is from "cars as targets" to "cars as attackers," across an estimated 5–10 million vehicles.

AI-assisted operations, human in command

We built an AI security operator and had it reach into the car's computer from across the internet over an encrypted mesh VPN, rebuild a broken environment, and stand up a full toolkit through four hours of live troubleshooting, with a human approving every key decision. That's the model behind the whole company: AI does the heavy lifting at machine speed; a human owns every call and verifies every finding.

The research, Wardriver Offensive Cyber Framework (WOCF)

The project is the basis of an active PhD dissertation in Offensive Cyber Engineering at Capitol Technology University (an NSA/DoD-designated Center of Academic Excellence): the Wardriver Offensive Cyber Framework, the first academic formalization of vehicles as mobile platforms for authorized security research, spanning GPS-correlated recon, attack-surface analysis, CAN-bus assessment, and AI-integrated operations.

Write-ups & collaboration

Defensive research and field write-ups land here and on the Wardriver Blog, like our brief on the actively-exploited Windows Defender 0-days. Want to collaborate or talk shop? hello@wardriversecurity.com.