MITM: Man In The Middle Attack [Concepts] A Man-in-the-Middle Attack allows a malicious actor to intercept, send, and receive data meant for someone else, or not meant to be sent at all, without either outside party knowing until it is too late. mitm0 Man-in-the-Middle attacks can be abbreviated in many ways including, MITM, MitM, MiM, or MIM. Concept: Man-in-the-Middle is a type of eavesdropping attack that occurs when a malicious actor inserts himself as a relay/proxy into a communication session between people or systems. A MITM attack exploits the real time processing of transactions, conversations, or transfer of other data. A Man-in-the-Middle attack allows an attacker to intercept, send, and receive data never meant to be for them without either outside party knowing until it is too late. The attacker inserts him/herself in-between the flow of traffic between client and server. Now that the attacker has intruded into the communication between the two endpoints he/she can inject false information and intercept the data transferred between them. Man in the Middle is a form of session hijacking, other forms of session hijacking similar to man in the middle are: Sidejacking – This attack involves sniffing data packets to steal session cookies and hijack a user’s session. These cookies can contain unencrypted login information, even if the site was secure. Evil Twin – This is a rogue Wi-Fi network that appears to be a legitimate network. When users unknowingly join the rogue network, the attacker can launch a man-in-the-middle attack, intercepting all data between you and the network. Sniffing - This involves a malicious actor using readily available software to intercept data being sent from, or to, your device. ~admin: justin
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:26:55 +0000
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