What Is A Wi-Fi Pineapple? How To Protect Yourself From Pineapple Attacks
How-To Geek, Monday, May 5th, 2025
"Wi-Fi Pineapple" is a silly name for a real threat to your cybersecurity. These devices trick you into connecting to fake Wi-Fi networks to intercept data and compromise your privacy. Here's how to protect against Pineapples and Wi-Fi attacks.
A Wi-Fi Pineapple is a device ostensibly sold for Wi-Fi security auditing, that can also be used to perform real attacks on your devices.
It's not literally a pineapple (though I'm sure some enterprising hacker out there has at least attempted to house a Raspberry Pi in an actual pineapple fruit), but named because early devices resembled pineapples, with antennas sticking out at all angles much like pineapple leaves.