Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

Time for action – Man-in-the-Middle attack

Follow these instructions to get started:

1. To create the MITM attack setup, we will first create a soft access point called mitm on the hacker laptop using airbase-ng. We run the following command:

   airbase-ng --essid mitm -c 11 wlan0mon
   

   The output of the command is as follows:

   
2. It is important to note that airbase-ng, when run, creates an interface at0 (a tap interface). Think of this as the wired-side interface of our software-based access point mitm:
   
3. Let's now create a bridge on the hacker's laptop, consisting ...