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By Ry Crozier on May 13, 2021 7:24AM FragAttacks detailed after nine months of behind-the-scenes work. A security researcher has uncovered 12 vulnerabilities in the 802.11 wi-fi standard that are said to affect “every wi-fi product” in some way, with major vendors starting to release firmware updates. The flaws have all been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifiers, and the researcher that uncovered them, Mathy Vanhoef, grouped them as fragmentation and aggregation attacks, or ‘FragAttacks’. “An adversary that is within radio range of a victim can abuse these vulnerabilities to steal user information or attack devices,” Vanhoef wrote. The biggest risk in practice is likely the ability to abuse the discovered flaws to attack devices in someone s home network. For instance, many smart home and internet-of-things devices are rarely updated, and wi-fi security is the last line of defence that prev

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