STEP 1: Open the Terminal and execute “airmon-ng”. This is a bash script that lets you turn your wireless card into monitor mode. The screen will list the wireless card/s attached to the system.
STEP 2: Stop the wireless monitor mode by executing “airmon-ng stop wlan0”
STEP 3: To start capturing the wireless traffic (including that pesky protected WiFi), run “airodump-ng wlan0”. The screen will then show the captured data.
STEP 4: From the list of captured traffic, find the access point with the WPA2 security and take note of the AP channel number. Run “was -i wlan0 -c <CHANNEL NUMBER>
-C -s” to know whether the WPS locked status is enabled or not. If the locked status says “no”, then we can move to the last step.
STEP 5: Here, we will brute-force the password through Reaver. This is a program available through Kali Linux, but you can download it separately if you have a different system. Type “reaver -i <YOUR INTERFACE> -b <VICTIM’S BSSID (MAC ADDRESS)> - fail-wait=360”. This can take some time. Cracking a 19-character password using Kali Linux running within a VirtualBox can take up to five hours. Of course, a faster hardware and better wireless card can shorten the wait time. Again, as a hacker, you need to know how to stop this from happening to you. Note that WPA and WPA2 passwords that do not have the WPS system turned on are not affected by this.
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