Wireless Attacks

Question 1

Evil twin

Answer 1

This is a kind of wireless spoofing attack. Rouge access point with the same SSID, enables to trick an user into connecting an attacker- controlled network may impersonate a “captive portal” to capture credentials and payment info

Question 2

Deauthentication

Answer 2

Denial of service attack (DOS), spoofing a disassociate which forces a device to re-associate. Device is continuously kicked offline, also known as disassociation attack, can be precursor for evil twin

Question 3

Spoofing

Answer 3

Wireless attack, impersonating a wireless device, enables an attacker to act as the trusted source and redirect/ manipulate actions

Question 4

Jamming

Answer 4

Wireless denial of service attack, overwhelming wireless frequencies with illegitimate traffic. Frequency becomes unavailable for legitimate traffic.

Question 5

RFID Cloning

Answer 5

Enables attacker to access a system, engage in credit card fraud, and all actions here RFID is used. Wireless spoofing attack.

Question 6

Replay attack

Answer 6

Wireless sniffing attack capturing and reusing packets . Reusing authentication data/credentials, replaying the packet over and over casing a denial of services

Question 7

IV attack - initialization vector attack

Answer 7

Wireless sniffing attack - capturing weak initialization vector (IV), knowledge of IV can be used to decrypt data packets

Question 8

Bluetooth attack

Answer 8

This is an access attacks:
Bluejacking- social engineering-Bluetooth discovery, enables sending unwanted message to Bluetooth device
Bluesnarfing- Bluetooth authentication- discovering and and connecting device with weak or non-existent authentication requirements

Question 9

NFC bump (Near Field Communication bump)

Answer 9

Enables NFC - enabled attacker to connect an NFC device by being in close enough range

Question 10

Sniffing

Answer 10

Type of wireless attack, which is capturing wireless data packets. Enables an attacker to eavesdrop, manipulate and/or reuse data packets

Question 11

Bumping

Answer 11

Unauthorized access to NFC device or transmission

Question 12

Denial of service

Answer 12

Type of wireless attack, this is overwhelming system resources. Enables an attacker to make services unavailable, for their intended use

Question 13

Bluesnarfing

Answer 13

Unauthorized Bluetooth connections

Question 14

Bluesnarfing

Answer 14

Unauthorized Bluetooth connections

Question 15

Disassociation

Answer 15

Spoofing attack (attacker acts as a trusted source)- a disassociate message is forcing a device to reassociate. Device is continually “knocked offline” also known as deauthentication attack, can be used as a precursor to an evil twin attack

Question 16

Access attack

Answer 16

Wireless access attack is an authentication exploit. Enables unauthorized or unsolicited access to end-user device

Question 17

Access attack

Answer 17

Wireless access attack is an authentication exploit. Enables unauthorized or unsolicited access to end-user device

Question 18

RFId eavesdropping

Answer 18

Wireless sniffing (taking and manipulating data packets), intercepting communication between RFID tags and readers