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Once the VM is compromised, it can trivially be used to attack the rest of your network. …

Sniffing network traffic is typically a privileged action. An unprivileged user does not have the ability to perform a packet capture by default. …

In addition to tracking the process down with netstat or lsof, on the affected system, instead of blocking the traffic, you could use iptables to redirect the traffic to services running on ports 80 a …

Did you try going to https://myexternalip.com/ in a browser? It appears to be an innocuous website that shows your external IP address. However, the reason it is being flagged could be due to the fac …

Since you are doing it remotely, it is very unlikely to affect your local system unless you either expose your local system's services via tunneling or there is a previously unknown vulnerability in t …

However, internet traffic is only half the battle; what about traffic originating on your local network? … If you visited a malicious webpage from a device on your internal network, the attacker could remotely take over the device. …

No, promiscuous mode is not sufficient to sniff packets on a wireless network, and will have very little effect. See this answer for the low-level details. What you need instead is monitor mode. … Monitor mode allows your network card to receive all wireless frames on the current channel. …

If the target network and devices are on 5GHz, you will not be able to see or touch them without obtaining different hardware. 802.11w is not used very widely, and even where it is used, it does a relatively …

Yes, this is definitely possible and is likely a good solution to your problem, assuming it is set up properly. Firewall rules and routing should solve most of the usability and security issues. I do …

I don't know of any kernel implementation that identifies any ARPs as "suspicious", since it's hard for the kernel to know the state of other devices on the network that are trying to ARP. …

Generally speaking, a vulnerable device/network doesn't become less vulnerable if it is turned off some of the time. … Or if you have infected devices on the network, this won't make them any less infected. …

Simply no, unless "someone" is your phone provider. But, knowing your phone number allows them to communicate with you, potentially social engineering their way into getting access. I'm only this …

I completely agree with the general concepts in schroeder's answer. However, I would like to answer with respect to IPv6 specifically. IPv6 address, when delegated by an ISP, are globally routable. …

If it is truly your personal device and is not running any work software, and if the Tor Browser and network behave as designed and you are following best practices, then other parties on the network will …

Mallory's computer is also connected to network B and knows about Alice's configuration. … Dave is on a remote network (one or more hops away) and knows about Alice's configuration. …