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An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that appears to be legitimate but is set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications. [1] The evil twin is the wireless LAN equivalent of the phishing scam. This type of attack may be used to steal the passwords of unsuspecting users, either by monitoring their connections or by phishing, which ...
One of the main purposes of deauthentication used in the hacking community is to force clients to connect to an evil twin access point which then can be used to capture network packets transferred between the client and the access point. The attacker conducts a deauthentication attack to the target client, disconnecting it from its current ...
Among the external access points, if any is found to be mischievous or a potential risk (e.g., whose settings can attract or have already attracted secure network wireless clients), it is tagged as a rogue access point of the second kind, which is often called an "evil twin".
KARMA attack. In information security, a KARMA attack is an attack that exploits a behaviour of some Wi-Fi devices, combined with the lack of access point authentication in numerous WiFi protocols. It is a variant of the evil twin attack. [1] Details of the attack were first published in 2004 by Dino dai Zovi and Shane Macaulay.
A wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) monitors the radio spectrum for the presence of unauthorized, rogue access points and the use of wireless attack tools. The system monitors the radio spectrum used by wireless LANs, and immediately alerts a systems administrator whenever a rogue access point is detected.
The StingRay is an IMSI-catcher with both passive (digital analyzer) and active (cell-site simulator) capabilities. When operating in active mode, the device mimics a wireless carrier cell tower in order to force all nearby mobile phones and other cellular data devices to connect to it. [9][10][11] The StingRay family of devices can be mounted ...
An example of a snarf is the Evil twin attack, using a simple shell script running software like AirSnarf [2] to create a wireless hotspot complete with a captive portal. Wireless clients that associate to a snarf access point will receive an IP, DNS, and gateway and appear completely normal.
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