Wi-Fi Security

A wardriving assessment across three Mexican host cities for the 2026 World Cup revealed significant wireless security risks, including high rates of vulnerable WPS configurations on otherwise secure WPA2/WPA3 networks. The prevalence of open networks, default SSID naming conventions, and BSSID exposure increases the attack surface for passive reconnaissance, rogue access point deployment, and adversary-in-the-middle attacks.

2026-05-134 minPalo Alto Networkshigh

Researchers have disclosed AirSnitch, a novel set of attack techniques that bypass WPA2 and WPA3-Enterprise Wi-Fi encryption and client isolation. By exploiting vulnerabilities in protocol-infrastructure interactions such as MAC address tables and routing layers, attackers can achieve Meddler-in-the-Middle (MitM) capabilities to intercept and inject traffic across enterprise networks.