Windows Defender and other security suites will likely flag Waircut as a "HackTool" or "Potentially Unwanted Application" (PUA). This is standard for penetration testing utilities, but it requires users to manually add exclusions to run the program. How to Protect Your Network Against WPS Attacks

Includes a built-in database of known generic pins for various router manufacturers.

This launches a Gradio web interface in your browser, making Waircut v3.1 point-and-click after the hard part is done.

Security software will universally flag these downloads as or active malware threats. 2. Legal Boundaries

A Pixie-Dust attack intercepts the initial WPS exchange and performs an offline calculation to deduce the PIN almost instantly, often within seconds, without needing to send thousands of guesses to the router.

Waircut integrates with Pixiewps, an external tool that can crack WPS PINs within seconds by exploiting the low or non-existent entropy of the router's random number generation.