Where Will the Traffic Go?

About this interactive

What you are doing: reading what defenders found and predicting what happens next to the users each card names. An evil twin is a spoofed wireless access point that copies a real network. Devices join it only when it has the same network name, the network's password if it has one, and the strongest signal where they are, and when they have a reason to join: a deauthentication frame that knocks them off the real network, or a first connection. Then their traffic runs through the attacker, an adversary in the middle. A disconnect with no copy to land on is only a short outage, and users the copy cannot reach are not affected. How to use it: check each condition against the card before you choose.

What you'll learn

Predict, from what defenders find, whether a spoofed wireless access point puts an attacker in the middle of a group of users' traffic, causes only a short outage, or leaves those users untouched
Explain what an evil twin needs before devices join it: the copied network name, the password of a protected network, the strongest signal where the devices are, and a reason to join, such as a deauthentication frame or a first connection

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

2.4 Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity.

Key terms

Evil Twin: A wireless attack in which an attacker sets up a rogue access point that broadcasts the same SSID as a legitimate network, tricking clients into connecting so the attacker can intercept or manipulate their traffic.
Deauthentication Frame: A wireless management frame sent to forcibly disconnect a client from a legitimate access point, often used in evil twin attacks to compel the client to reconnect to a rogue access point.
Service Set Identifier: The network name broadcast by a wireless access point that clients use to identify and connect to a specific Wi-Fi network. SSIDs can be up to 32 characters long and are transmitted in beacon frames; networks may be configured to suppress SSID broadcasting for limited obscurity.
Wireless Access Point: A device that allows wireless devices to connect to a wired network using Wi-Fi.
Man-in-the-Middle Attack: An attack where an adversary secretly intercepts and potentially alters communications between two parties.

Topics

Evil Twin Deauthentication Frame Man In The Middle Attack Interactive Predict

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