no matter where you go if you switch on Wi-Fi you're going to find a ton of networks that probably use wpa psk encryption now since you clicked on this video you probably know that these kinds of networks are easily hackable but do remember this is entirely for educational purposes and you should never do this on strangers network as it is illegal now with that out of the way I'm going to explain why and how it works how actually to do it and how to protect yourself against it so every
the time you connect to a network from a wireless device a handshake is sent from the device to the router this handshake happens to contain the encrypted password now it's not possible to reverse the encrypted password but what you can do is use something called a word list attack a word list is a huge text file containing thousands of passwords and if you happen to encrypt all of these passwords and compare both the actual handshake password and the encrypted password
whenever they match you'll know what the real password is so now that you know how it works how do you actually do it so the first thing you're going to need is a computer running linux the operating system i'll be using is kali linux since it comes with all the tools i need pre-installed and if you want to run it on another linux distribution all you need to do is download these packages another thing you might need if your computer's network card doesn't support mono mode is an external network card like this cheap tp-link adapter you'll know if you need it with the next step so now i need to know which network i want to attack which in my case is angelus network but simply having the name is not enough to figure out more information about the target first we need to figure out what the name of your wireless interface is to do this open up a terminal and write ipa now here are all of your network interfaces the wireless ones will start with wlan something for example mine is wlan0 which stands for wireless local area network zero what i want to do now is turn on monitor mode for this network card so that i can start receiving all of the traffic that's around me to do this i'm going to use a tool called airman.ng the specific command is airman minus ng start followed by the wireless network interface which in my case is wlan0 so if you happen to have wlan 1 then you would use wlan 1. this command will switch the mode of your network
card from managed to monitor which also means that your internet will break so you won't be able to look anything up on
now if you write iw config on any console you're going to be able to see that the network's cart mode has been turned into monitor if this isn't the case that means that your network card doesn't support monitor mode and you're going to need the adapter i showed