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PERSONAL DATA STOLEN FROM UNSUSPECTING AIRPORT VISITORS AND PLANE PASSENGERS IN
“EVIL TWIN” ATTACKS, MAN CHARGED
Posted: July 1, 2024 by Pieter Arntz
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Enter your email to see if your personal data has been exposed.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have charged a man for setting up fake free
WiFi access points in order to steal personal data from people.
The crime was discovered when an airline reported a suspicious WiFi network
identified by its employees during a domestic flight. When the alleged
perpetrator landed at Perth airport, his bags were searched and authorities
found a portable wireless access device, a laptop, and a mobile phone in his
hand luggage.
The police say that the man, 42, used a portable wireless access device to
create ‘evil twin’ free WiFi networks; so called because criminals set up free
WiFi access points that mimic the name of legitimate public WiFi networks.
When people tried to connect their devices to the free WiFi networks, they were
taken to a fake webpage requiring them to sign in using their email or social
media logins. Those details were then allegedly saved to the man’s devices.
The email and password details harvested could then be used to access more
personal information, including bank accounts, emails and messages, photos and
videos, and more.
AFP cybercrime investigators have identified data relating to the use of the
alleged fraudulent WiFi pages at airports in Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide, on
domestic flights, and at locations linked to the man’s previous employment.
The investigation is ongoing but the man can expect to face nine charges for the
alleged cybercrime offences.
‘Evil twin’ attacks are a type of “machine-in-the-middle” attack, where all
traffic is routed through a server under the attacker’s control, giving them
access to all of the submitted information.
Cybercriminals favour places where people expect to have free WiFi, such as
airports, planes, coffee, shops, and libraries. The attacker finds the
legitimate network name—known as the SSID (service set identifier)—and creates
an access point with the same name.
Access points and wireless router networks broadcast their SSIDs to identify
themselves, but the identifiers are not unique. Your device can connect to any
SSID if the network has no security options enabled, and it will not be able to
differentiate between the legitimate and the fake one.
Evil twin attacks are based on the fact that when two networks have the same
SSID and security settings, your device will either connect to the one with the
strongest signal or the one it sees first.
HOW TO STAY SAFE FROM EVIL TWIN ATTACKS
There are a few things you can do to protect yourself against this kind of
attack.
* Firstly, do not allow your device to auto-connect to public or unsecure
networks. See below on how to turn this off.
* Look out for unexpected behavior. To connect to a free WiFi network, you
shouldn’t have to enter any personal details—such as logging in through an
email or social media account.
* Install a trusted VPN to encrypt the traffic regardless of the network you
are using, and even when you’re not visiting websites that HTTPS (Hypertext
transfer protocol secure) which encrypts the traffic between a browser and
the website.
* And my personal favorite: Use your own personal hotspot. I use a portable 5G
Mifi router, which provides me with reliable high-speed WiFi throughout my
domestic journeys.
HOW TO DISABLE AUTO-CONNECT
When you’re travelling it may be safer to disable auto-connect on Wi-Fi
altogether.
On Android it works roughly like this (steps may be slightly different depending
on your Android version, device type, and vendor):
Settings > Network & Internet (or Connections) > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi preferences (or
Advanced). Toggle off Connect to public networks.
On iOS you can disable auto-connect by doing this:
Settings > Wi-Fi. Tap the (i) next to the network name and then toggle off
Auto-Join.
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