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 rootless. Kali Linux featured it in the official 2026.1 release, describing it as a pentesting tool on four wheels. Kali NetHunter Podcast Episode 3 described Kristopher Wilson as the person who made the first Kali NetHunter automobile. The public receipts now sit one click away.

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 a user 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 can quietly turn a car into a mobile offensive platform. Depending on the vehicle, these systems can share internal networks with other components, which is exactly why this is studied only in our own authorized lab vehicle. The shift it points to is from "cars as targets" to "cars as attackers," across a fast-growing population of Android Automotive vehicles.

AI-assisted operations, human in command

We built an AI security operator and had it work on our own lab vehicle's computer remotely over an encrypted mesh VPN, rebuild a broken environment, and stand up a full toolkit in a few hours, 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, which formalizes vehicles as authorized mobile platforms for 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. Want to collaborate or talk shop? contact@wardriversecurity.com.