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Decades-Old ‘Frag Attack’ Flaws Affect Almost Every Wi-Fi Device – WIRED
The so-called Frag Attack vulnerabilities could let hackers steal data or compromise connected gadgets.
A set of vulnerabilities in how Wi-Fi is designed and used in practice expose virtually every Wi-Fi-enabled device to some form of attack. A handful of those flaws have been around since the original Wi-Fi standard debuted in 1997.
The findings, publicly disclosed this week by New York University Abu Dhabi researcher Mathy Vanhoef, show that an attacker within Wi-Fi range of a target network could potentially exfiltrate data from a victim and compromise their devices. But while the sheer scale…
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