RF Hacking with SDR
Four days learning software-defined radio applied to security. Rather than only running public tools, you learn how they work and build your own to analyse and attack targeted systems, on the real cases we meet in pentests and Red Teams and on the unknown targets you will meet next.
- Find, analyse, modulate and demodulate a signal from scratch
- Capture, generate, replay and analyse signals with SDR
- Encode and decode data carried over the air
- Apply SIGINT and COMINT fundamentals to offensive security
- Measure and characterise antennas for reception and transmission
- Build your own tools with GNU Radio and its alternatives
- Attack 2G to 4G, RFID/NFC, LoRa, wireless peripherals and sub-GHz remotes
- Pentesters and red teamers adding radio to their toolkit
- Product and embedded security engineers
- Researchers moving from wired to wireless
- Anyone with an SDR who never got past receiving
Four days, day by day.
Roughly a third theory, two thirds hands-on. The content adapts to the group and the days available.
RF preliminaries
Hands-on radio with GNU Radio
Attacking physical intrusion systems
Implants, industrial systems and arsenals
What every attendee takes home.
The hardware is not a loan. Attendees keep the kit, the tooling and the captures, so the skills survive contact with their own backlog.
- Hardware kit
- Full-duplex TX/RX SDR, kept by the attendee
- Docker container
- RF Swift, with the toolchain preloaded
- Slides and scripts
- Full deck plus the tools used in class
- Captures
- Real signals from assessments, cleared for teaching
Prerequisites.
A laptop that can keep up
Linux with 8 GB of RAM minimum, USB 3.0 and administrator rights
Programming and Linux
Knowledge of Linux and a language such as C, C++, C# or Python is needed
Radio knowledge is a plus
Basic radio theory helps but is not mandatory
Your trainer.
Published research on 5G security, Open RAN, baseband fuzzing, interception and mapping, and power-line communication in electric vehicles and charging stations. Practical work across Wi-Fi, RFID and other wireless systems.
Publications →Public dates
All trainings →| Nov 16-18, 2026 | Hardwear.io NL 2026SDR Hacking Advanced: reversing and exploiting wireless communications |
Run it privately for your team.
Quoted per group, not per seat, and the content adapts to your stack. Remote live, on your site, or at our offices near Paris.