Chameleon Virus that Spreads Across WiFi Access Points like Common Cold
Feb 26, 2014
Do you know, A Computer viruses could go Airborne over WiFi networks? Security researchers at the University of Liverpool in Britain have demonstrated a WiFi virus that can spread between computer networks just like the ' common cold ' spreads between Humans. They have created a proof-of-concept which can infect the entire wireless network instead of a single computer at a time, that replaces the firmware of the vulnerable Access Point (AP) with a virus-loaded version, and then propagates itself to the next victim on the WiFi network . The WiFi based virus named as ' Chameleon ', that can self-propagate over WiFi networks from access point to access point, but doesn't affect the working of the Wireless Access Point. This Virus is able to identify WiFi access points that are not protected by encryption and passwords, according to the research paper . It can badly hit less-protected open access WiFi networks available in coffee...
