* Block-Ack Requests (BAR): An attacker sends BAR frames to the AP, spoofing the MAC address of an already connected STA and requesting a Starting Sequence Number (SSN) that is invalid. The behaviour of the AP was to stop responding with QoS Data frames to the source MAC address of these frames, but without disconnecting it. Even after this attack stopped, the legitimate STA while remain connected to that AP, was unable to retrieve QoS Data frames. As a result, the legitimate STA, to have access to QoS Data frames, needed to reconnect to that AP manually. Practically, this means that this STA was unable to retrieve any relevant Data frame, while it remain connected to this AP. As a result, an attacker could exploit further this issue, by executing a Deauthentication/Disassociation or an Evil Twin assault, to trick the targeted STA into changing the wireless network. Some APs behave the same way when they were targeted with BA frames.
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