Wi-Fi routers around the world are vulnerable to a new exploit that allows attacking the WPA2 security protocol, or the old WPA, to gain control over this type of devices. We are talking about a new type of attack based on which hackers can more easily obtain login data in the administration panel of Wi-Fi routers, and of course there is currently no protection measure against this new problem.
Wi-Fi routers are not the first problem of this kind, and this is because a similar vulnerability was discovered a few months ago, but which was much more difficult to exploit by hackers. The first vulnerability allowed Wi-Fi routers to be exploited only if activity was monitored and the moment when a user logs in to the router was captured, but the new vulnerability no longer requires this waiting time, but only an attempt to log in to the router.
Wi-Fi routers are VULNERABLE to a new DANGEROUS Exploit
At that moment, the hacker obtains an encrypted version of the login data to the Wi-Fi router, and from this point the hacker must break the encryption system to have access to said data. Of course, breaking the encryption is not easy, nor fast, so a hacker could not very easily gain access to a Wi-Fi router, but even so, it is good to know that these devices are vulnerable to attacks, and let vulnerable users.
"A new technique has been discovered to easily retrieve the Pairwise Master Key Identifier (PMKID) from a router using WPA/WPA2 security, which can then be used to crack the wireless password of the router. While previous WPA/WPA2 cracking methods required an attacker to wait for a user to login to a wireless network and capture a full authentication handshake, this new method only requires a single frame which the attacker can request from the AP because it is a regular part of the protocol."
This new vulnerability comes just a few months after the new security protocol was announced WPA3, with the aim of improving the security of Wi-Fi routers used by users. Of course, it is not known when the WPA3 security protocol for Wi-Fi routers would be released, so in the meantime all users could remain vulnerable to the exploits that still exist in the software of these devices.
