16-year-old Broadcom WPS flaw can give nearby attackers router control
Researcher demos stole a Wi-Fi password and opened a shell without the network key; tested Belgian gateways were still unpatched.
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Unpatched Broadcom WPS flaw lets nearby attackers run code as root
Quentin Kaiser's own exploits read a Wi-Fi password and opened an over-the-air shell; he reports no real-world attacks.
Cross-Domain Inference for Human Localization: Applying Wi-Fi RSSI Data to CSI-Trained Models
Researchers show CSI-trained Wi-Fi models can localize people from RSSI data at ~80% confidence, enabling privacy attacks from ordinary IoT devices.
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2026 edition
ESET's August 2026 recap covers the Hugging Face hack, attacks on critical infrastructure, and a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network.
Researchers open-source a Wi-Fi cyber range for security training
NTNU and Aegean researchers open-source a software-emulated Wi-Fi cyber range using mac80211_hwsim with LLM-assisted scenario building.
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