Keystone

Remote work doesn’t usually fail because someone clicks a sketchy link.

It fails because a device tries to be helpful. Phones and laptops remember every network they’ve ever joined.

We’ve seen attackers take advantage of that by spinning up cheap hardware that pretends to be “Hotel WiFi” or “CoffeeShop_Guest.”

From there, traffic is exposed and the employee has no idea anything is wrong.

This comes up more often than people expect when staff travel or work between locations.

Turning off auto-connect on company devices forces a quick manual choice and removes that silent handshake in the background.