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Wi-Fi Alliance officially launched WPA3, the next-generation Wi-Fi security standard that, according to them, will eliminate all known security vulnerabilities and wireless attacks that occur today, including KRACK attacks. As pentest experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Wi-Fi protected Access report, WiFi Protected Access (WPA), is a standard designed to authenticate wireless devices using the […]
We discovered serious weaknesses in WPA2, a protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. An attacker within range of a victim can exploit these weaknesses using key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs). Concretely, attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted. This can be abused to steal sensitive information […]
During the last weeks we’ve been investigating multiple aspects of GSM security such as protocol vulnerabilities as well as source auditing the world’s most common open source software products that run GSM networks. In this post we’ll share the details about multiple vulnerabilities in such software which allow an attacker to compromise a BTS station, […]