WiFi-based Location Services Attack on Dual-band Hardware

Wireless LANs, or WiFi, have enabled many new applications due to their wireless nature. One such application is location service which allows devices to determine its location using information from WiFi infrastructure. However, wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping and jamming. Once the wireless signal is jammed, an attacker can set up fake access points to impersonate a legitimate access point. In this paper, this attack is performed specifically to trick WiFi-based location services. Our paper shows that the attack works on Skyhook, Google, Apple and Microsoft location services, four of the major location service providers, and works on dual-band hardware.