{"id":226116,"date":"2025-11-29T04:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/man-behind-in-flight-evil-twin-wifi-attacks-gets-7-years-in-prison"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:18:28","slug":"man-behind-in-flight-evil-twin-wifi-attacks-gets-7-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/man-behind-in-flight-evil-twin-wifi-attacks-gets-7-years-in-prison","title":{"rendered":"Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-behind-in-flight-evil-twin-wifi-attacks-gets-7-years-in-prison.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an \u201cevil twin\u201d WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The man, an Australian national, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/australian-charged-for-evil-twin-wifi-attack-on-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged in July 2024<\/a> after Australian authorities had confiscated his equipment in April and confirmed that he was engaging in malicious activities during domestic flights and at airports in Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the man was setting up an access point with a \u2018WiFi Pineapple\u2019 portable wireless access device and used the same name (SSID) for the rogue wireless network as the legitimate ones in airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an \u201cevil twin\u201d WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia. The man, an Australian national, was charged in July 2024 after Australian authorities had confiscated his equipment in April and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}