Wireless Attacks

WPA3 (2018) closed the structural weaknesses that made WPA2 networks crackable — chiefly, it killed the offline handshake attack. So why is wireless still on the engagement? Because almost every WPA3 network runs in transition mode for backward compatibility, and that one setting hands an attacker a path straight back to the crackable WPA2 handshake. This phase covers exactly that: the WPA3 delta, and a hands-on red-team simulation of the downgrade attack from recon to host compromise.