MITM/Wireless/Network Tap

Installing a wireless network tap involves the attacker placing a physical device between the target and the network device they're trying to communicate with.

Just as a phone tap is a physical bug installed on a phone line, and an ethernet tap is a physical device with two ethernet ports physically on the network, a wireless tap is a physical device with a wireless connection to both the attacker and their authentic network device (the router, modem, etc.)

Configurations

Wired-Wireless Configuration

This involves creating a wireless access point, plus a corresponding network tap device, on the attacker's machine. The attacker can then bridge the network tap and the ethernet device, and bridge the two devices. In this way, when a sheep connects to the access point all of their traffic will be forwarded through the access point, allowing a MITM attack to occur.

Wireless-Wireless Configuration

In this configuration you're bridging two wireless devices to create a wireless network tap. This is gonna be slow...

Wired-Wireless Configuration

Setup

To set this up we need three things:

1. be able to turn wireless device into an access point with airbase-ng

2. bridge network traffic from wireless ap to ethernet

3. sniff

=Wireless Access Point

We can create this with airbase-ng