Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack (www.wired.com)
from PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works on 22 Nov 2024 13:48
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dumbass@leminal.space on 22 Nov 2024 14:21 next collapse

I’m not gonna read the article so I can believe they teleported through the WiFi to escape.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 22 Nov 2024 16:00 next collapse

It’s a way cooler picture than the reality, which is probably that they hacked a laptop on a different network that could access the target endpoint.

I dunno, I won’t read it either, because I want to believe in your vision.

card797@champserver.net on 22 Nov 2024 16:31 collapse

Thanks, dumbass.

jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Nov 2024 18:22 collapse

TLDR: they hacked a less secure network in range of their target network, then SSHed into a laptop on the less secure network and used it to hack the target network. Possibly even daisy chained less secure networks. The point of this was to not sit in a suspicious car next to your target while you brute force their wifi password (they have been caught previously).

My question is: how do you get caught while hacking wpa2? I’m not an expert, but I assume you can get the data you need to do an offline bruteforce just by driving by and sitting at a red light a few times, which is not suspicious at all even if you have a laptop out. Or did they try to hack wpa3? If so, I assume it’s trivial to detect online bruteforce attempts and stop responding to them, or even just whitelist MAC addresses?

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 22 Nov 2024 18:32 next collapse

Maybe they detected the compromise on the secure network, and only after some forensics did they work out that it came from a compromised laptop in a neighboring building.

gencha@lemm.ee on 22 Nov 2024 18:52 collapse

“If a target is important enough, they’re willing to send people in person. But you don’t have to do that if you can come up with an alternative like what we’re seeing here,” Hultquist says.

From the article