Network jamming – DOS/DDOS wireless network attacks

The most common way of jamming a wireless network is by sending a continuous series of deauthentication packets, which will disconnect clients from the AP and also prohibit clients from connecting back to the AP. This attack is also helpful during honeypot attacks.

Another approach could be to send disassociation packets. The difference between these two management frames is that the deauthentication packet will inform the attacker that the user is disconnected from the network. However, the disassociation packet will disconnect any node that is connected to the AP while the AP is down or rebooting.

So, to perform this, we will be using aireplay-ng, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.31 – Deauthentication attack

Now that we have seen network jamming attacks using deauthentication or disassociation attacks, let's move forward with an advanced topic, honeypots...