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An 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.

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PMKID found , but it should be WPA handshake

i was trying to get access in wifi network but i came to something that i need to ask afteraireplay-ng –0 20 –a [router bssid] –c [client bssid] wlan0mon i expect WPA handshake in right top ...
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Aircrack-ng Windows 10 with USB WiFi in Promiscuous mode

I have seen many tutorials and lessons about how to use aircrack-ng suite in Linux. Can I use this suite in Windows 10? If so, from where can I download binaries safely? (if you google, there are ...
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Aireplay-ng - Deauth not working

While using this command aireplay-ng --deauth 1000 -a <router mac address> -c <user mac address> interface name After hitting enter and sending two deauths, it says write failed:Network is ...
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Unable to See Network Clients during Deauth Capture Issue

bit of a general question here, would hope to learn more about exactly what is going on technically. I'm attempting to test and capture a handshake from my own AP (an older Apple Airport router). I'...
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How to prevent the device from connecting to the original AP?

I'm running an Evil Twin attack with airgeddon. Point is that after deauth the account is going, automatically, to get reconnected to the orginal AP and not the fake one. The aireplay is likes so: ...
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Is it possible to hack a SSID without actually having to sniff or send deauth frames to a host?

I'd like to know if there exists at least the possibility of a known/theoretical attack on a wireless SSID that does not involve a host within the network, what I mean by this is that some of the ...
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aircrack-ng issue: No mon0 when run "airmon-ng start wlan0" and "No such BSSID available"

I have read many threads on StackExchange and some other blogs but none helped me. The issue is with aircrack-ng on Kali Linux. It gives me error No such BSSID available when I run aireply-ng. I think ...
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besside-ng "bad beacon" error when attempting to deauth (aircrack-ng)

Equipment: Alfa AWUS036ACH Wi-Fi adapter AC1200 Fresh Install of Kali Linux, fully updated (not on a VM) I have been running across this same "bad beacon" error (sometimes with "DEAUTH&...
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How to disable n or ac mode aircrack

I am unable to see clients connected to an ap when using airodump. After extensive research i have found that it’s because my adapter is using 802.11n. n mode doesn’t work when capturing, neither does ...
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airodump-ng -d returns nothing

I am using Kali Linux on VMWare Fusion on my Mac. I am able to airodump and see my router, but when I run airodump-ng -d BSSID to see devices connecting to the network, then connect my phone, nothing ...
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Airodump-ng shows AP as OPN and WPA2 at the same time. What does it mean?

The result of airodump-ng lists some AP's as both OPN and WPA2. How does the authentication work in that case? 12:34:56:78:AB:CD, 2011-09-09 15:29:47, 2022-10-21 16:09:05, 1, WPA2 OPN, CCMP, MGT, -75,...
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aircrack-ng on Raspberry pi 3 and WiFi adapter

I am just getting into ethical hacking and cybersecurity and would like some advice regarding USB Wi-Fi adapter. I am hacking on Raspberry PI 3 which is running Kali Linux. Furthermore, I have been ...
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Airodump-ng shows AP on negative channel

I am new to WiFi and was trying to learn pentesting with the aircrack-ng suite. In the following airodump-ng excerpt, any idea why airodump-ng is showing an access point with negative value -1 as the ...
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I couldn't deauth any devices using aireplay-ng command in kali linux

I am using Kali linux. I've updated all tools and services by apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. I was using aircrack-ng for pentesting my wlan network. I wanted to deauth any device connected to my ...
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Significant differences in hash cracking speeds? [duplicate]

I'm doing an educational hash research. I generated MD5 hash using online tools and cracked it within a second using Hashcat and certain wordlist (yes, one second). Then I produced a WPA handshake ...
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WEP keystream extraction

After having captured multiple packets with repeated IVs you can perform cipher1 XOR cipher2 which is the same as having cleartext1 XOR cleartext2, and performing cipher1 XOR cleartext1 gives you the ...
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No clients appearing when using wireless attacking tools in Kali Linux

I'm new to Ethical Hacking so please bear with me. What I'm trying to do currently is to crack the password of my personal router using aircrack, wifite and fern wifi cracker. However, I observed in ...
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Airodump-ng : why are BSSID not associated?

Using airodump-ng with my wireless adapter in monitor mode, I am able to get expected scan to run. I have a few questions : Why do BSSIDs show as "not associated" (note: not all of them show as ...
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airodump-ng station not associated with bssid

Why do some BSSIDs show as "not associated" (note: not all of them show as such; some just show a usual BSSID). I have tried to use the other BSSID that shows up for the other station but it didn't ...
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DeAuth sent to router doesn't deauthenticate

I'm trying to perform a De-authentication attack on my wifi network. My command is: aireplay-ng -0 0 -a B8:A3:86:5E:9C:DC wlan0 The response looks like this: 20:35:59 Waiting for beacon frame (...
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Problems in stopping/restoring Aircrack session

I'm running aircrack-ng version 1.6 on Live Kali. I noticed that "recently" a -N option has been added for saving a session, which can be later resumed with the option -R. However this seems ...
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How to get attacker mac address aireplay-ng

I'm currently working on a WIPS and I would like to know how to obtain the attacking MAC address when he launches a aireplay-ng deauth attack. On wireshark, if the attacker broadcast the deauth ...
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Why ifconfig and airmon-ng show me a different result?

I can see encryption details and AUTH types with ifconfig but not airmon-ng. Do I need to do something about it in order to to get better results from Fake authentication attack ARP request attack ...
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Aireplay handshakes, were working now has an error

I'm trying to learn to do pen testing and wifi cracking. I had captured handshakes and begun cracking the handshake a day ago, with the password not being in my dictionary list. When trying with a new ...
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What are the factors making a WPA2 handshake suitable for cracking?

Days ago I was dumping handshakes of my APs using airodump-ng. I would later use aircrack-ng to crack them using wordlists which would purposely contain the passphrases. However, I noticed that some ...
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Detecting changes in surrounding WiFi networks [closed]

I’m considering developing a simple WiFi scanner and logging App that can run as a service 24 hours a day for months, passively collecting changes in the surrounding wireless environment with the ...
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Access point uses different BSSID and deauth attack fails

I'm using airgeddon (https://github.com/v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon) to perform a deauthentication attack on my wifi network. When i put my wireless interface in monitor mode to scan the network from the ...
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Does aircrack-ng use GPU/CUDA capabilities?

As stated, does aircrack-ng when brute forcing a WPA2 handshake capture use GPU/CUDA resources such as a program like Hashcat does?
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With WiFi now having protected management frames, is it still worth attempting an evil twin attack?

I was trying to aireplay'ng my home WiFi but I understood that with the new generation of APs, there is a system of protected management frames. So I'm asking, is it still worth it to perform an evil ...
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Turn RPi3 Wi-Fi adapter into monitor mode using airmon-ng

For some reason, I can't turn the built-in Wi-Fi adapter on the new Raspberry Pi 3 into monitor mode like I used to do on other platforms. First I kill the processes that interfere with sudo airmon-...
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wifi cracking using a network adapter which doesn't support packet injection

I'm trying to crack my wifi (WPA-CCMP) password to test its strength and security, I'm using the commview for wifi and aircrack-ng software on windows 10. I've three laptops, Windows 10 (64bit) with ...
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I'm not able to DeAuth a Client (Aireplay-ng)

I'm trying to perform a De-authentication attack on my own network and client. However, the client never disconnects and I cannot boot the client from the AP. I'm running: aireplay-ng -0 0 -a [BSSID]...
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802.11 data frames missing from Wireless frames capturing

By working on the Wireless QoS (WMM/802.11e), I captured with airmon-ng and airodump-ng on Kali Linux, the 802.11 raw wireless frames, on my BSSID and channel. I generate some traffic from my ...
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Aireplay deauth having no effect, no handshake and Reaver stuck

So I'm trying to hack my own WiFi using aircrack or reaver but have had no success with either. With aircrack I cannot achieve a successful handshake as the deauth doesn't seem to have any effect on ...
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How long til a 4-way handshake is captured with Aireplay-ng

I've got a TP-Link TL-WN722N wifi adapter which I believe allows monitoring/injection to a network (was reassured by the comments of other users). When I follow a guide by Vulnerableuser I can get to ...
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DeAuth not DeAuthing Client (Aireplay-ng)

I'm trying to perform a De-authentication attack on my own network and client. However, the client never disconnects and I cannot boot the client from the AP. I'm running: aireplay-ng -0 0 -a XX:XX:...
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Enterprise Wireless 5Ghz deauth

I am running blackbox pentests on an enterprise wireless setup. My area of attack consists of multiple APs that have a 2.4 GHz interface and also a 5GHz one. I have successfully deauthenticated users ...
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How to speed up brute forcing of finding a WEP key from a captured file?

I have been working on decrypting a WEP .cap file using crunch. It has 1268 IVs. I am wondering: Can I get a clue from the captured file to speed the process of brute-forcing? If not, what other ways ...
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Aireplay --deauth on network with multiple access points

I have successfully used the aireplay-ng --deauth attack on a network with a single access points, but when trying on a network with multiple access points (e.g. a network using Google WiFi) it doesn'...
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aireplay-ng --fakeauth issue with deauth packet

I am new to Kali Linux and I want to check if ethical hacking and pentesting is my cup of tea. I'm trying to associate my wireless adapter with an AP via aireplay-ng --fakeauth, but every time I use ...
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Issue establishing a working AP with Airbase-ngand DNSmasq

I’m able to run airbase-ng, set DNSmasq with a customized config file that includes dhcp options 3, and 6, with the actual router IP address of the network that has internet, and added public DNS ...
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Airgeddon-ng Handshake fail [closed]

I've followed the following instructions below. This is a freshly installed Parrot OS, not using VirtualBox and etc. I am also using Alfa AWUS036NHA wifi adapter. ifconfig sudo airmon-ng start wlan1 (...
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Can't connect to fake AP with airbase-ng

I use kali-rolling on a virutal machine and I try to set up a fake access point using airbase-ng, but my devices won't connect to it whatsoever. My steps are: I put my wirless adapter in monitor mode ...
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How to get result from airdump-ng on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

Issue: when I run airodump-ng wlp3s0mon, no results appear. I recently installed all kali linux tools on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this git repo https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin My chipset is the ...
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Is it safe to login using HTTP on a WPA2 protected home network?

I have a small network infrastructure in my home on which I'm hosting some services such as a website, file server and such. Many of those services have an administration web interface which isn't ...
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I am unable to secure a WPA handshake (4 way handshake)

I am training to be a pen tester and am having some issues obtaining a 4 way handshake. I use airodump-ng -c -w file --bssid wlo1 followed by Aireplay-ng -0 0 -a (Mac) wlo1 Here's all the steps I ...
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Will the new WPA3 protocol make it impossible to hack WIFI Password? [closed]

Like I asked in the thread title; Will the new WPA3 protocol make it impossible to hack a WIFI's password using tools like aircrack-ng?
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Evil AP with known WPA2 password

So I have been playing around with the aircrack-ng suite and beef a mitmf. Until now I have been able to host an Evil Twin with DHCP server and providing internet access to connected clients while ...
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is it possible to create a WEP wifi that accepts any password?

the same as evil twin fluxion but without captive portal so the victim connects to our fake Wep Wifi that accepts any password after getting disconnected from his Wpa 2 Wifi so we sniff data from the ...
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DeAuth all AP's in range

In a few days, we are going to be many friends that will gather together and play all night long using 6-7 APs. How can I DeAuth/Disconnect everyone's connection, without being connected to their ...