Multi-Channel Man-in-the-Middle attacks against protected Wi-Fi networks: A state of the art review

Multi-Channel Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks are special MitM capable of manipulating encrypted wireless frames between two legitimate endpoints. Since its inception in 2014, attackers have been targeting Wi-Fi networks to perform different attacks, such as cipher downgrades, denial service, key reinstallation (KRACK) 2017, and recently FragAttacks 2021, which widely impacted millions devices, especially IoT devices. To the best our knowledge, there no studies literature that holistically review types enabled analyze their potential impact. this end, we evaluate capabilities every reported attack state art. We examine practical issues hamper total adoption protection mechanisms, i.e., security patches Protected Management Frames (PMF), available defense mechanisms confronting context. Finally, highlight research problems identify future approaches field.