312-50V12 · Question #129
Bobby, an attacker, targeted a user and decided to hijack and intercept all their wireless communications. He installed a fake communication tower between two authentic endpoints to mislead the victim
The correct answer is A. aLTEr attack. The aLTEr attack is usually performed on LTE devices that encrypt user data in the AES counter (AES-CTR) mode, which provides no integrity protection. To perform this attack, the attacker installs a virtual (fake) communication tower between two authentic endpoints to mislead the
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- AaLTEr attack
- BJamming signal attack
- CWardriving
- DKRACK attack
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The aLTEr attack is usually performed on LTE devices that encrypt user data in the AES counter (AES-CTR) mode, which provides no integrity protection. To perform this attack, the attacker installs a virtual (fake) communication tower between two authentic endpoints to mislead the victim. The attacker uses this virtual tower to interrupt the data transmission between the user and real tower, attempting to hijack an active session. Upon receiving the user’s request, the attacker manipulates the traffic with the virtual tower and redirects the victim to malicious
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