Huge number of Android devices vulnerable to new catastrophic Wi-Fi attack

Oct16

by Sindy Cator on October 16, 2017 at 11:17 am

Earlier today, reports emerged that the popular WPA2 Wi-Fi encryption protocol was fundamentally flawed, and could allow an attacker to intercept and read traffic sent across a wireless network. Now, details are emerging about the scale and severity of the problem. The attack – known as a key retransmission attack (or KRACK) – sees a malicious actor trick a victim into using a compromised encryption key. Troublingly, Linux and Android-based users are most at risk. According to Matty Vanhoef, who uncovered the issue, 41 percent of Android devices vulnerable to an “exceptionally devastating” variant of the WPA2 attack, which makes…