a home-made wireless access point (hot spot) that masquerades as a legitimate one to gather personal or corporate information without the end-user's knowledge.
A Wi-Fi hotspot, operated by a hacker, which tries to fool users to believe that it is a legitimate hotspot by mimicking a network name (SSID) and a login page of a legitimate hotspot provider. The hacker purpose is to steal the users' login details or other personal information. This type of hotspot is also called rogue hotspot.
a bogus base station that latches on to someone using new "Wi-Fi" wireless technology
a hacker operated hotspot designed to trick users into believing it is a legitimate public hotspot by mimicking the legitimate public hotspot's network name and login page (if applicable)
a hotspot set up by a hacker to lure people from a nearby, legitimate hotspot
a wireless connection that is setup to mimic a legitimate wireless connection such as a public hotspot
A spoofed doppelganger of a legitimate wireless access point is known as an evil twin. Often home constructed, the evil twin hotspot offers wireless access for the purpose of collecting the user's data, which can then be exploited or sold.
An evil twin is a stock character concept found in fiction (especially soap operas, science fiction and fantasy). An Evil Twin is someone who is equal to an existing character in all respects, except for a radically inverted morality, which makes him or her evil (and often some changes in appearance, stereotypically a goatee for men and a different hair color for women, for the audience's convenience).
