Hacker Devices: Wi-Fi Pineapple

Excerpt From wi-fi vulnerabilities part 2 Webinar Find Out More on Hacker Devices: Wi-Fi Pineapple With CTO Dr. Brett Walkenhorst. CTO Dr. Brett Walkenhorst explains how a pineapple can help with evil twin attacks in the brief video below. These devices provide an easy-to-use setup procedure, mirroring access points and using various attack techniques to create evil twin networks. Unconventional tactics have been employed to target corporate Wi-Fi networks using pineapples.

Key Takeaways

• The Wi-Fi Pineapple is an off-the-shelf pen-test tool that makes evil twin attacks simple to run
• It can clone access point capabilities to impersonate legitimate Wi-Fi networks
• Pineapples have been drone-mounted to attack corporate Wi-Fi from the air
• At around 100 dollars it is convenient, but the same attack is possible with 10 to 20 dollar hardware and software

Video Transcript

A pineapple, is a WiFi device that is a pen test tool that enables evil twin attacks. It's relatively straightforward out of the box to set these up, you can clone capabilities of access points. You can set up different forms of attack to instantiate an evil twin. These have been used.

In a drone mounted configuration to attack corporate WiFi networks. That's an interesting delivery mechanism. So so these are are nice little devices that just over a hundred bucks and you can set up an evil twin. This is not the only way to do it, by the way. You can view really cheap devices on the orders of like ten or twenty bucks.

To set up a a WiFi network interface card that is dedicated to this and you can run all kinds of software to do this. The pineapple just gives you a nice simple way of implementing the evil twin attack.