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  1. When people connect to the Internet with their mobile devices, they do not often think about the security of their data; however, the prevalence of rogue access points has taken advantage of a false sense of safety in unsuspecting victims. This paper analyzes the methods an attacker would use to create rogue WiFi access points using software-defined radio (SDR). To construct a rogue access point, a few essential layers of WiFi need simulation: the physical layer, link layer, network layer, and transport layer. Radio waves carrying WiFi packets, transmitted between two Universal Software Radio Peripherals (USRPs), emulate the physical layer. The link layer consists of the connection between those same USRPs communicating directly to each other, and the network layer expands on this communication by using the network tunneling/network tapping (TUN/TAP) interfaces to tunnel IP packets between the host and the access point. Finally, the establishment of the transport layer constitutes transceiving the packets that pass through the USRPs. In the end, we found that creating a rogue access point and capturing the stream of data from a fabricated "victim" on the Internet was effective and cheap with SDRs as inexpensive as $20 USD. Our work aims to expose how a cybercriminal could carry out an attack like this in order to prevent and defend against them in the future. 
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