During a city council Wi-Fi outage drill, clients see dozens of rapidly appearing fake SSIDs and struggle to find the legitimate municipal network. Which attack best matches this symptom?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Fake beacons are like stuffing a hundred phantom radio stations into the dial—the real city SSID gets lost in the noise. That discovery chaos is a beacon flood hitting availability. Proper EAP-TLS or OWE would not spray junk SSIDs.
Full Explanation
Beacon flooding advertises large numbers of bogus BSS advertisements to confuse client scanning, degrade usability, and create availability or discovery disruption. It is categorized among common WLAN attacks that target the control/management plane rather than cracking a PSK. Distinguishing floods from legitimate open-network encryption (OWE) or Enterprise auth successes is essential.