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A fake AP can refer to:

• A Honeypot, which is a fake access point made to attract hackers and other wireless intruders in order to collect information about them.
• Black Alchemy's Fake AP-application, which is a program able to create a large amount of fake Access Points (AP) to conceal a true AP among them, so an attacker will have a hard time finding the true access point to penetrate.
• An AP faked by a hacker in order to trick a user (of a wireless network he or she is attacking) into using it. Information gathered from this user or his/her system itself (ports, etc.) can be used to break into the wireless network. This may be done through a man-in-the-middle attack. A common program used for this purpose is AirSnarf.
• A rogue AP physically installed on a (wired) network a hacker is attacking from the outside.

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