Security News > 2018 > August > Hashcat developer discovers simpler way to crack WPA2 wireless passwords

While looking for ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard, Hashcat developer Jens “Atom” Steube found a simpler way to capture and crack access credentials protecting WPA and WPA2 wireless networks. The attack The attacker needs to capture a single EAPOL frame after requesting it from the access point, extract the PMKID from it by dumping the recieved frame to a file, convert the captured data to a hash format accepted by Hashcat, and … More → The post Hashcat developer discovers simpler way to crack WPA2 wireless passwords appeared first on Help Net Security.

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