HACKERS FLYING BACK

Hackers flying back home from Defcon hijacked the in-plane WiFi and broadcasted a fake network to steal other passengers' login data. Delta Flight 591 from Las Vegas to Atlanta was carrying Defcon passengers returning back home after the conference. "Hey, Alert Corp[orate] Security. We have a pax on that has created a scam WiFi called Delta WiFi Fast. We believe they are trying to scam other pax [passengers] that were at a cyber conference in Las Vegas. The[y] (sic) were able to jam our WiFi and broadcast (sic) there (sic) signal." According to crew messages sent during the flight, some passengers used equipment to jam the plane's in-flight WiFi, then broadcast their own network named Delta Fast WiFi. Close enough to the real name that people wouldn't, anyone who connected got a fake login page. Other passengers on board, it was harvesting personal credentials and even Google login data. The crew noticed the unauthorized activity and shut down the in-plane WiFi for 30 minutes to kill it. To confirm the unauthorized network was established and real, and report that passenger and airplane safety were never when the plane landed at the gate, federal agents and airport police were already waiting. They boarded the aircraft, questioned the suspects, and seized portable WiFi hardware. This technique is called a deauthentication attack, or deauth for short. It works by sending forged signals to impersonate the real in-plane WiFi, tricks everyone's devices to disconnect and reconnect to the network instead. Follow for more cybercrime news.