The price of hacking Wi-Fi has fallen dramatically, and low-cost microcontrollers are increasingly being turned into cheap yet powerful hacking tools. One of the most popular is the ESP8266, an Arduino-programmable chip on which the Wi-Fi Deauther project is based. On this inexpensive board, a hacker can create fake networks, clone real ones, or disable all Wi-Fi in an area from a slick web interface.
The Rise of Microcontrollers as Offense Wi-Fi Tools
Wi-Fi hacking has usually relied on a couple of pieces of hardware to do the trick. First, you'd need a computer capable of running whatever attack program you're trying to use. Second, you'd need a wireless network adapter with a chipset that supports whatever bad Wi-Fi thing you're trying to do. Things could get expensive, with the cheapest combination of a Raspberry Pi and a wireless network adapter still coming in at around $70 to get started.
For a lot less, microcontrollers are capable of many of the same attacks the larger and more expensive Raspberry Pi can do. While a microcontroller isn't capable of running a full operating system like Kali Linux, they are often easier to run due to the ..
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