Now this little guy right here may be cute, but his diet consists of electricity and your WiFi!.. well sort of…
Now you might be asking yourself But… WHY?
To give hackers an excuse to learn about reinforcement learning and WiFi networking—and have a reason to get out for more walks.
Also? It’s cute as f—.
–Pwnagotchi.ai
This has been something that I’ve wanted to build ever since the moment I laid eyes on it. I came across this little device when I was searching around YouTube for a different project I was working on at the time.
So what it is exactly? Well it is an AI powered networking tool that is capable of sniffing networks for those o so delicious WiFi passwords. I said that this guy eats your WiFi… But what does that mean?… (Click for more)
It means that it looks around at all the nearby WiFi networks and waits for a device to try and connect. Then, it eats up the encrypted password and saves it on the device as a packet capture otherwise known as a (pcap). I can then take the pcap later and put it through a program to attempt to decrypt it and get the password. This is a pretty easy way to test the security of a network password. The more complex the password the harder it is to crack.
How I made it. (Click for more)
I constructed this device using a Raspberry Pi (which is a brand of single board computer), an ink display (basically a screen that just uses black and white) and the pwnacotchi software that I had modified to fit my needs. Pretty simple right?