{"id":17675,"date":"2026-08-12T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:25:12","slug":"def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-assault-on-delta-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17675","title":{"rendered":"DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot assault on Delta flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233218421-scaled-1152x648-1786493250.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, elevating the eye of federal regulation enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The incident got here someday after the DEF CON safety convention concluded in Las Vegas and was first <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live.acarsdrama.com\/@acarsdrama\/117072256729860162\">described<\/a> on social media accounts that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Turbinetraveler\/status\/2087050102930026619\">observe<\/a> publicly out there air-to-ground messages, often known as ACARS.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the \u201cACARS Drama\u201d account, a message despatched by pilots from the aircraft acknowledged: \u201cNO INFO AS OF NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFERENCE IN LAS THEY WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI AND BROADCAST THEIR SIGNAL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2026\/08\/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight\/\">Learn full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2026\/08\/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight\/#comments\">Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, elevating the eye of federal regulation enforcement. The incident got here someday after the DEF CON safety convention concluded in Las Vegas and was first described on social media accounts that observe publicly out there air-to-ground messages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[717,10137,10138,10136,4861,10139,6673,2707],"class_list":["post-17675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-attack","tag-con","tag-crowd","tag-def","tag-delta","tag-fakehotspot","tag-flight","tag-suspected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69d9690a190636c2e0989534. Config Timestamp: 2026-04-10 21:18:02 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-08-12 22:24:49 UTC -->