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CAPEC-615 — Evil Twin Wi-Fi Attack

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-300

CAPEC-615: Evil Twin Wi-Fi Attack

MITRE CAPEC attack pattern

Status Draft
Typical severity Low
Likelihood of attack
Catalogue CAPEC 3.9 (2023-01-24)

Description

Adversaries install Wi-Fi equipment that acts as a legitimate Wi-Fi network access point. When a device connects to this access point, Wi-Fi data traffic is intercepted, captured, and analyzed. This also allows the adversary to use "adversary-in-the-middle" (CAPEC-94) for all communications.

Where this sits in the chain

A finding maps to a weakness (CWE), a weakness is exploited by an attack pattern (CAPEC), and an attack pattern shows up in ATT&CK as observed adversary behaviour. This page is the middle hop.

Weaknesses exploited: CWE-300

Prerequisites

  • None

Consequences

  • Confidentiality: Read Data

Mitigations

  • Commercial defensive technology that monitors for rogue Wi-Fi access points, adversary-in-the-middle attacks, and anomalous activity with the mobile device baseband radios.

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