Almost all the users started using wireless internet connectivity due to the ease of usage. No chords or plugs or cables is needed for wireless. Recently there has been many crimes reported based on the wireless breach.
Every broadband users are using dongles or home Wi-Fi for the internet connectivity. What happens when we are out of the home, many search for free wi-fi around the area where they are. This is where the hack begins.
There are places where there are genuine wi-fi hotspots available such as shopping malls, posh restaurants and hotels. But attackers are also using the place where people gathering will be more.
If you are aware of Wi-Fi Pineapple, Rogue Access Point and Evil Twins then you will be aware of the free wi-fi.
Rogue Access Point and Evil Twins are already discussed in the earlier posts and now we can take a look at the #Wi-Fi Pineapple.
Wi-fi Pineapple Mark V is a wireless auditing tool used for wireless penetration testing released by Hak5. It can be used to launch more sophisticated attack in very simple manner. It is unmatched in performance, value and versatility.
The main features of this tool are flexible power supply, Optional Pineapple Juice battery and it supports 300 USB Mobile Broadband modems for tunneling , pivoting and remote access. It supports tunneling over SSH and VPN, with logging and networking capabilities.
The Pentest package includes aircrack-ng, dsniff, easy-creeds,ettercap, hping3, httptunnel, karma, nmap, tor and many more. It also has out of box python, perl, ruby, php and bash support.
The tool if used by an attacker imagine the power of hack through wireless and this is how many victims fall these days in the name of FREE Wi-Fi.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused. It is to be used for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY and the AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE BY RUNNING THE TOOL.
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