Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v11) — Question 89

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. Bobby used 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, Bobby manipulated the traffic with the virtual tower and redirected the victim to a malicious website.
What is the attack performed by Bobby in the above scenario?

Answer options

• A. aLTEr attack
• B. Jamming signal attack
• C. Wardriving
• D. KRACK attack

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Bobby's actions exemplify an aLTEr attack, which involves creating a rogue base station to intercept and manipulate communications between a user and a legitimate tower. The other options, such as Jamming signal attack, focus on disrupting signals rather than hijacking sessions, Wardriving refers to searching for Wi-Fi networks, and KRACK attack targets vulnerabilities in the WPA2 protocol, rather than using a fake tower.