Delta Flight 591 between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Atlanta, Georgia was carrying some passengers from the recently concluded DEF CON 34 hacking conference yesterday, and an attendee apparently didn't want to let the fun stay in Vegas. A passenger reportedly “jammed” the plane’s Wi-Fi signal. According to View From the Wing, that hacker then created their own Wi-Fi hotspot called “Delta WiFi Fast” that routed to a phishing website that harvested the Google credentials of any passenger who attempted to log in.
The pilots on the flight told the ground crew to alert corporate security as someone was tampering with in-flight Wi-Fi through ACARS, the digital communications systems airliners use for air-to-ground text communications. “Hey, alert corporate security. We have a passenger onboard that has created a scam Wi-Fi called ‘Delta WiFi Fast.’ We believe they are trying to scam the other passengers,” the pilots said in their first message. They followed this up 17 minutes later with, “No information as of now. We have a bunch of passengers that were at a cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. They were able to jam our Wi-Fi and broadcast their signal.”
