Malicious WiFi Connections: The Other MWC

This Zimperium blog post maps and describes malicious WiFi activity around Barcelona and the Mobile World Congress, highlighting Evil Twin and man-in-the-middle attacks detected at the airport, venue, hotels, and tourist locations. It shows geolocated detections (including example SSIDs), explains how easy tools can be used to impersonate networks, and offers user and enterprise mitigations such as disabling automatic network joins, avoiding open WiFi, using VPNs, and deploying mobile security solutions.