蹭网有风险!信息安全机构对北京、上海、广州三地机场、火车站、旅游景点、商业中心等6万多个Wi-Fi信号的调查显示,有8.5%的WiFi信号为“钓鱼WiFi,可能存在修改并植入恶意软件,盗取账号密码等风险。
Mobile device users should be cautious to automatically linked free WiFi connections. [Photo: thepaper.cn]
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Phishing WiFi has been rampant among public WiFi accesses in China's major cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, featuring 8.5 % of public WiFi connections, the Shanghai-based news outlet "The Paper" cites an information security consultancy Rainraid to report on Tuesday.
11月3日,澎湃资讯援引信息安全组织“雨袭团的调查报道称,“钓鱼WiFi在中国大城市如北京、广州、上海等地十分猖獗,有8.5%的WiFi信号为钓鱼WiFi。
所谓“钓鱼WiFi(phishing WiFi),就是一个假的无线热点(wireless hotspots),当用户的无线设备连接上去时,可能会被反扫描,修改并植入恶意软件(malicious software),盗取用户账号密码(steal users' names and passwords)等。
Phishing指有人假扮有信誉的公司或者个人通过发送电子邮件或者提供免费网络连接骗取用户的个人信息,尤其是银行账号和密码等隐私信息的行为,因为与fishing发音很接近,因此被称为“网络钓鱼,如钓鱼网站(phishing site)、钓鱼邮件(phishing e-mail)、钓鱼式欺诈(phishing scam)等。
信息安全组织“雨袭团近日公布了中国一线城市公共WiFi安全状况调查研究报告(a report on security conditions of public WiFi connections in China's first-tier cities)。报告透露,在所有的WiFi信号中,有34%为第三方公司业务,23%为店铺自建热点、14%为寄生虫热点,9%为公共设备(public device),8.5%为钓鱼WiFi,7.5%为家庭热点(home WiFi networks),4%为临时热点。其中,被判定为不安全的WiFi信号93%存在着获取用户信息和设备信息的情况,因此专家提醒避免接入自动接入的网络连接(automatically-linked free WiFi connection),接入陌生连接时需谨慎。
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