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Police allege ‘evil twin’ in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal info • The Register (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 days ago by GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

If you are trying to steel credentials from people with power and money passengers in first class are a good target.

Where else are you going to find a cluster of people like that that are using the wifi and are going to be there for hours. It's about as optimal as I can think of.

Even better if you are targeting a spefic company. Just pick flights out of the headquarters for that company.

If you want to attack say Microsoft pick a flight from Seattle to DC. Pretty good odds of a Microsoft high up being on the flight and wanting to use the wifi for work.