AWS Cloud Used To Brute Force Wi-Fi Passwords

New security technology has demonstrated how for-rent cloud computing services can be used to launch a brute force attack targeted at password protected Wi-Fi systems.

Thomas Roth has developed an open source brute force attack solution known as Cloud Cracking Suite that uses Amazon's rentable EC2 cloud computing service to crack the WPA-PSK key used to safe-guard Wi-Fi network.

The software uses eight GPU-based Amazon Web Services instances to launch a brute force attack on a Wi-Fi network at the speed of 400,000 attempted passwords per second.