The Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager Is a Hacker’s Pentesting Dream Tool (Probably)
Flipper beware, because a challenger approaches: the Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager.
The Flipper Zero has been a runaway success, as so many people appreciate all of the functionality packed into a small, cute, pocketable gadget. But now a challenger approaches: the Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager.
If you’re familiar with Hak5, it is probably for their very popular WiFi Pineapple pentesting platform, which is now on the Mark VII version. They also offer a number of other products tailored to the needs of pentesters. But as well-regarded as those are, they tend to be pretty niche. The WiFi Pineapple Pager seems to be targeting a slightly more mainstream market and has a lot of overlap with the Flipper Zero.
Ignoring functionality for a moment, I will say that the WiFi Pineapple Pager looks awesome. It is in a form factor that genuinely looks like a pager, which users can clip to their belts. In comes in covert black and also a delightful yellow color. It has a full color 2.4” display with a resolution of 480 × 222. And it has physical buttons with programmable RGB LED indicators.
Getting to the important stuff, the WiFi Pineapple Pager has triband Wi-Fi (2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz), plus Bluetooth 5.2 and BLE 4.2. It has a 580MHz MIPS 24K router chip, 4GB of eMMC storage, 256MB of DDR2 RAM, and 128MB of memory on SPI. The enclosure contains a 2000mAh LiPo battery, and there is a PWM buzzer plus haptic feedback.
The WiFi Pineapple Pager will run DuckyScript, which is Hak5’s own scripting language built for pentesting. Users will also be able to take advantage of Payloads. There is a huge library of Payloads available on the Hak5 website for everything from popular attacks to memes. Users can also make their own Payloads using Hak5’s Payload Studio.
Of course, this is all for white hat activity.
If you want a WiFi Pineapple Pager, you can pre-order one right now for $300 on the Hak5 website.