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Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 days ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia. [...]

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[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A VPN would not have helped with this. People connecting to the decoy wifi network were redirected to phishing pages that they willingly gave their info to. HTTPS was still present, the criminal still could not have intercepted information that wasn't input into the phishing page. With a VPN, you would have still been redirected exactly the same way.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the vpn offered its own dns, then it would never used the compromised dns.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

You generally have to accept the captive portal pages before your vpn connection will be allowed.