While performing a wireless penetration test against a client's office, you notice an access point broadcasting the company's SSID but configured with open authentication. Its signal is strongest near the reception area, and clients are being flooded with 802.11 deauthentication frames before reconnecting to it. Which wireless threat does this situation best describe?
An evil twin is an attacker-controlled rogue access point that copies the legitimate network's SSID and often uses stronger signal strength to lure stations. Deauthentication frames are sent to force nearby clients off the real AP; when they automatically reconnect, they may join the attacker's open AP, enabling traffic interception or credential theft. Hidden SSID cloaking simply suppresses SSID broadcasts and does not involve spoofed APs or deauth floods. The KRACK vulnerability targets the WPA2 four-way handshake, not the creation of a fake AP. BlueBorne is a Bluetooth-based exploit unrelated to Wi-Fi infrastructure.
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