Public Wi-Fi access is a ubiquitous part of networked life in the modern internet. Wi-Fi hotspots provide fast and convenient internet access for the general public at locations such as coffee shops, libraries and community centres, transportation hubs, and private commercial/social spaces. However public Wi-Fi also provides cyber criminals with a number of convenient attack routes which have been well documented by security researchers.

This assessment aims to:

1) Bring together an overview of those attack routes in order to provide a coherent description of the nature of the threat(s) posed by public Wi-Fi use in the UK.
2) Present open source research to quantify the scale and spread of public internet access points throughout the UK.
3) Present research into Action Fraud reported crime to determine the approximate number of cyber crimes which have taken place through this attack vector, and the approximate monetary losses associated with these reports.
4) Provide a basis for the production of protect messaging to be distributed to owners and operators of establishments across the UK at which members of the public regularly access public Wi-Fi.

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