A flaw in WPS, or WiFi Protected Setup, known about for over a year by, was finally exploited with proof of concept code. Both, the discoverers of the exploit and Stefan at have created their respective 'reaver' and 'wpscrack' programs to exploit the WPS vulnerability.

From this exploit, the WPA password can be recovered almost instantly in plain-text once the attack on the access point WPS is initiated, which normally takes 2-10 hours (depending on which program you use). This exploit defeats WPS via an intelligent brute force attack to the static WPS PIN.

By guessing the PIN, the router will actually throw back, whether or not the first four digits (of eight) are correct. Then, the final number is a checking number used to satisfy an algorithm. This can be exploited to brute force the WPS PIN, and allow recovery of the WPA password in an incredibly short amount of time, as opposed to the standard attack on WPA.

In this, let's go over how to use both tools to crack WPS. As of yet, no router is safe from this attack, and yet none of the vendors have reacted and released firmware with mitigations in place. Even disabling WPS still allows this attack on most routers. Anyway now is scanning fine after correcting that typo.but after i do the attack on my wifi.sudo reaver -i mon0 -b XX:XX:XX:FF:DD:DD -vv.all i get is.

Waiting for beacon from XX:XX:XX:FF:DD switching mon0 to channel 1 Associated with XX:XX:XX:FF:DD (ESSID: somename) and thats it. Only three lines and it stops there with the curser blinking.I am immaging that reaver is working trying to find me the password, but is kinda strange just sittting here watching the cursor blinking waiting for magic.tell me is normal.or did i do something wrong again? Ok so i got reaver working fine.after two days of waiting patiently.(aargghhh).now reaver gets locked up at 90.90%.repeating the same pin over and over again.through out the whole night.was thinking it was network signal problem.so i got the network signal to go up.and reaver was testing each pin at 5seconds/pin (not bad) but unfortunately it kept on repeating the same pin. Been checking on other forums and it seems am not the only one having that problem.but nobody has suggested a solution. Master OTW.do you have a solution? Anybody got a solution? Am using reaver on kali.someone was talking about the new version of reaver having a bug or something.help pls.

Find the default login, username, password, and ip address for your TP-LINK router. You will need to know then when you get a new router, or when you reset your router.

I'm running in to the same issue. I'm assuming that all new routers now have this protection feature. Rootkit Ntoskrnl Executive Orders here. From what I'm seeing, we should still be able to gain access to the PIN but it is going to take a lot longer (considering we are having to wait a minute between each attempt basically).

As far as a work around, I'm racking my brain and can't really think of any for this type of attack. Perhaps someone with more experience could give us some insight. I'll probably end up doing an 'Evil Twin' attack. It's the only type I haven't attempted yet and seems very clever:) Reply. Atlas: Welcome to Null Byte!

As for hacking wifi with Windows 8, you have a few options. Aircrack-ng has a Windows version, but I can't vouch for its effectiveness. Cain and Abel runs on Windows and is an excellent wifi cracking tool, but you need to buy a special wireless card that runs hundreds of dollars. My recommendation is that you invest a bit of time and learn Linux. Most hacking tools are designed for Linux and most hackers use Linux for a number of very good reasons. I have 13 tutorials here on Null Byte on the basics of Linux for new hackers.

Easiest way is download kali linux 32x from offensive security as an iso. Burn it and run it as a live boot disk.

Download Adobe Pdf Reader For Blackberry 9800. The default user is root and the password is toor. Onve its boots open terminal and type wifite. That will be a gui tool the rest is automatic. Both wps and wep can be hacked easily.

However many new routers have recieved firmware upfates to block this method of attack so dont be expecting this to work. Finally if your wireless card does not support monitor mode then ur going to need to get a usb antenna may i suggest a signalking antenna. If you get it working then well done u have completed ur first task.

If ur really good then use sdr to hack mobile phone calls. Both and more are very easy with kali linux. Most facebook viruses are made from the social engineering toolkit from kali. But reading is one thing. Actually doing it will land you in jail. Soo dont cry if you end up on the end of blacks willy.

Happy hunting.:) Reply. I know this was a long time ago, so not sure if you still need this info (or are even active), but there are at least 2 ways to do this that I know of. It can be done in the terminal using a command like wash -i or something like that. Sorry I don't have the exact command for you, but honestly I'm tired and I can't remember. (Hopefully you can manage to google this yourself though) The second and noob way (I may catch some flak by giving you this cheat but you seem like the kind of person that wants it the easy way, no offense), is to access the Fern wifi cracker in your Kali tools. When you scan for AP's it will show you whether they support WPS or not.

I wouldn't count on this GUI as being 100% accurate though but it is a good place to start. As far as using fern to crack the password, I think you would be much better off using aircrack or reaver in the terminal. Fern is just basically a GUI of aircrack in my opinion, but using it will rob you of the command line practice we all need. Hope this helped (sorry if I sounded rude, wasn't my intent) Reply. Just a personal experience that might be interesting to share, though I don't know if someone has already said this: according to Reaver version 1.4, the arguments --dh-small and -d 0 almost half the time spent. Theorically (correct me if I'm wrong) there are 40.320 combinations. My results are 2 seconds/pin, almost 1800 pins per hour (fails exluded).

So with my test AP it would take 22,4 hours to complete the process, let's assume we have it at half, a pretty good result I'd say. But I heard of better performances, is it possible to speed the process up even more?

EDIT: see Cyber's reply, this is totally wrong. Greetings, CIUFFY. An 8 digit pin using 0-9 = 10 to the 8th possible combinations (100,000,000). However since the 8th digit isn't part of the pin it is just a check sum of the other 7, total = 10 to the 7th (10,000,000). However WPS presents the pin in two halves for verification. So if one half of 4 digits are correct it will just work on the other half of 4.

Don't forget the second half has one space for a check sum, so really it's just 3 digits in the second half. The correct total for WPS (10 to the 4th + 10 to the 3rd = 11,000). So the first half has 10,000 possible combinations and the second half has just 1,000. Short keys (--dh-small,-S) will speed it up. My lab gives me 22-90 secs a pin on updated firmware routers. 2-3 seconds on old firmware.

Also things to note is that even tho the router says locked or no WPS hit it anyway(-L) to vet that because my recent tests show they are unlocked yet flagging locked. What I used last. 'reaver -i monx -a -S -N -E -b xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -vv -d 3 # -r 2:199 # if you are getting locked out too much add that it may help' -a Auto select some advanced features. -S Use small diffleman attacks (reduces strain on the router & increases speed). -N No nacks, just speeds things up a bit.

-E Terminates each pin attempt with an EAPOL fail so it may trick the router into thinking the pin failed and may let you try more before it locks. -d The default delay period between pin attempts is 1 second. -r Recurring delay.

Sleep for y number of seconds every x pin attempts. Having problem with reaver reaver -i mon0 -b EC:22:80:*:*:* -a -S -c 10 -vv Reaver v1.4 WiFi Protected Setup Attack Tool Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner • Switching mon0 to channel 10 • Restored previous session • Waiting for beacon from EC:22:80:8B:19:CD • Associated with EC:22:80:8B:19:CD (ESSID: **) • Trying pin 12340064 • Sending EAPOL START request! WARNING: Receive timeout occurred • Sending EAPOL START request! WARNING: Receive timeout occurred • Sending EAPOL START request!

WARNING: Receive timeout occurred • Sending EAPOL START request! WARNING: Receive timeout occurred can any one help!! I encounter reaver keep trying pin 12345670 over and over again for more than 2 days. Using Alfa AWUS036H USB wireless adapter. I observed 3 notable fail transaction.! WPS transaction failed (code: 0x02), re-trying last pin • Trying pin 12345670! WPS transaction failed (code: 0x03), re-trying last pin • Trying pin 12345670!

WPS transaction failed (code: 0x04), re-trying last pin • Trying pin 12345670 steps that i had used airmon-ng airmon-ng start wlan0 wash -i mon0 reaver -i mon0 -b 34:08:04:6F:0F:B0 -vv. Hi there peeps! I remember when REAVER, Bully and Pixie Dust came (approx 2,5 years ago it was implemented in Kali Linux's 'wifite' but their attacks are so old that manufacturers have patched most of it with the annoying WPS lockout by now im afraid:) People also do upgrade their equipment both with firmware and physically. BUT if you think about it. There is possible to spoof.

GO figure it out, Kali tools are getting too outdated by now and 'derv82' the author of wifite has not been active in the community for some time and let Wifite2 unfinished allready couple years ago. Implementing mac spoofing with macchanger would actually work on most manufacturers, because the accesspoints dont/cant close out eventually their real clients in a total lockdown anyway:) with that said, you/someone must add a macchanger routine to Wifite by yourself:) Best regards, kimocoder Kali & NetHunter Developer & Sony Mobile & Playstation Developer Reply. This router attack rarely works anymore. Despite what the article says, most manufacturers have patched this vulnerability. These days encryption keys are getting longer and harder to crack. A brute force attack would take an incredibly long time to succeed.

Your attacking machine would probably be obsolete by then. What does one gain from this quite labor intensive process? Free stolen wifi? Even in my little town free, open wifi is available throughout most of the area. Hmm, outdated articles, which are often incorrect coupled with an abundance of ads which I never see (hint, ad away works fantastic) This would appear to be another affiliate site. No harm in that.

I've been an affiliate for several companies.