Discovering WPA3 attacks
At the time of writing, WPA3 is the latest wireless security standard within the wireless networking industry. As such, it has resolved various security concerns that existed in its predecessor; that is, WPA2. In the previous sections, you discovered various types of attacks that a penetration tester can use to compromise an IEEE 802.11 wireless network using the WPA2 wireless security standard. WPA2 wireless networks are highly vulnerable to wireless de-authentication attacks, which allows a threat actor or a penetration tester to send de-authentication frames to any wireless clients that are associated with a specific access point. However, WPA3 is not susceptible to de-authentication attacks because WPA3 uses Protected Management Frame (PMF), unlike its predecessors.
The following comparison will help you quickly understand the new features and technologies of WPA3:
