MOSCOW, June 1 Attackers can create fake Internet access points that are indistinguishable from regular ones, so you should only connect to public Wi-Fi points when using A VPN or other program that encrypts traffic to protect data, Sergei Golovanov, chief expert at Kaspersky Lab, said in an interview on the eve of SPIEF 2024.
“There are fake access points, they are created in crowded places and they are called exactly the same as regular ones, so called Wi-Fi Dubai 123 free, they can be seen by anyone who has turned on a Wi-Fi network scanner, moreover, you can even It’s almost impossible for a simple user to find this access point. Which one should you connect to, if you have so-called programs that encrypt traffic to protect data? In this case, attackers will not be able to decrypt your traffic,” Golovanov said. . 
If you connect to fake Wi-Fi points and do not encrypt your traffic, hackers can obtain user credentials to log into accounts on various services. As the expert said, there are already databases on the darknet that are collected in a similar way.
«Accordingly, users should connect only to trusted access points and, if possible, use programs to encrypt traffic to ensure the security of network connections,» he concluded.
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