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Introduction Bully is a new implementation of the WPS (Wifi Protected Setup) brute force attack. It’s almost identical as other already existing WPS brute force attack tools, but Bully represents an improved version of Reaver and includes a few advantages. You can take a look at Brute Force Attack Against WPS – Reaver, to see its features and compare them to the Bully. WPS (Wifi Protected Setup) WPS was introduced in 2006, and the goal of the protocol is to allow home users who know little of wireless security to set up Wi-Fi Protected Access, as well as making it easy to add new devices to an existing network without entering long passphrases. In December 2011 a flaw was revealed that affects wireless routers with the WPS feature. That flaw allows a remote attacker to recover the WPS PIN in a few hours with a brute-force attack and, with the WPS PIN, the network’s WPA/WPA2 pre-shared key [HIDE][Hidden Content]]