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A flaw in the design of the Wi-Fi standard means that an attacker can, in certain circumstances, divert your connection to a less secure network, disable your VPN and intercept traffic.
If there is credential reuse involved, this could make the user vulnerable to traffic interception. Additionally, the exploit can force any VPN that has an auto-disable mode for trusted networks to turn itself off.in partnership with Top10VPN, is caused by a flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard. As such, it impacts all Wi-Fi clients and all operating systems if certain requirements are met. The research discovered at least six universities, in the U.K. and U.S.
It would be fine if such security measures were only required after your device joins a network. CVE-2023-52424 proves that is not the case at all. “The result of this fundamental design flaw means all WiFi clients on all platforms and operating systems are vulnerable to the SSID confusion attack,” the report states.
Ian Thornton-Trump, the chief information security officer at threat intelligence consultancy Cyjax, thinks that the implications of this attack could be very interesting on Internet-of-Things devices. “It may be possible to ‘take over’ the wireless device connection and potentially conduct covert surveillance,” Thornton-Trump said, “This is why loT devices need to be in isolated segments and heavily restricted by port/protocol and destination to limit lateral movement and compromise.
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