Default Wi-Fi passwords

Back in 2022 I was speaking at BSides Sofia about hacking set-top boxes and decrypting IPTV streams. After the talk I met Alex Stanev who told me about the wpa-sec project he was running. The project is about collecting WPA handshakes and cracking them in distributed manner. I got interested and Alex was kind enough to share a lot of his research with me. It turns out that a lot of routers are…