What tools are used for setting up an evil twin?

The tools used to create evil twins are airmon-ng, airbase-ng, and aireplay-ng. These tools are part of the aircrack-ng suit that we covered in previous chapters. It is recommended to use an alpha adapter (wireless adapter) when using these tools.

The following screenshot show a screenshot from airmon-ng setting up an evil twin access point:

airmon-ng is used for the enumeration of the target wireless access point. airbase-ng is used to create the clone or twin of the real access point. aireplay-ng has two main functions in this role. The first is to send the deauthenication frame to the client ...

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