Most useful tools for hacker

Hacking has been a part of computing for almost five decades and it is a very broad discipline, which covers a wide range of topics. It's the act of finding the possible entry points that exist in a computer system or a computer network and finally entering into them. The first known event of hacking had taken place in 1960 at MIT and at the same time, the term "Hacker" was originated. Hacker is a term used by some to mean "a clever programmer", especially "someone who tries to break into computer systems". The hackers, some often work as "computer security consultants" who advise the companies that how to protect themselves. Some hackers are performing for monetary gain, while others are in it for the power. In most cases, they actually use sophisticated software and code. Hacking software or tools are computer programs and scripts that help you find and exploit weaknesses in computer systems, web applications, servers, and networks. In this article, we are going to show a list of hacking tools that have been used for long years by the hackers around the world.

So, let's check out the list -

THC-Hydra

THC-Hydra is one of the most widely used utilities when it comes to hacking network devices. THC-Hydra is an optimized network cracker. It supports many different services and it has the wide feature set and service compatibility. Hydra works with a wide range of protocols, services, and applications protected by passwords.

Netsparker

Netsparker is a popular web application scanner. It finds flaws like SQL injection and local file induction. This hacking tool is very easy to get started with. Simply enter the URL and let it perform a scan. Netsparker supports JavaScript and AJAX-based applications. With this tool, you don’t need to configure the scanner or rely on some complex scanning settings to scan different types of web applications.

Nmap

Nmap stands for ‘Network Mapper’. You can consider Nmap as being one of the best-known and one of the most useful hacking tools. If you are serious about pen testing, ethical hacking and IT Security in general, then learning Nmap is essential for you.

Angry IP Scanner

Angry IP Scanner is a cross-platform and is an open source network scanner created to for fast and efficient deployment. Angry IP Scanner is very easy to use. This IP Scanner is mostly used by network administrators but it can also be used for penetration testing. This particular hacking software includes IP Range Scanning and able to exports results in many formats and provides command-line interface.

Metasploit

Metasploit is free. Its’ functionality is relatively basic. Professional security researchers, pen-testers and ethical hackers would likely prefer to use Metasploit Pro which is the fully-fledged security solution for security programs and advanced penetration tests for SMEs and enterprise level organizations. Metasploit is comprised of a flexible tool that allows its operators to launch exploits and payloads. Metasploit runs on Unix including Linux and Mac OS X and on Windows, and the Metasploit has been translated in verbose to dozens of languages.

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a useful tool for performing Security Testing of web applications. This tool works seamlessly together to support the entire pen testing process. It spans from initial mapping to analysis of an application's attack surface. It can detect over 3000 web application vulnerabilities. It scans open-source software and custom-built applications. It an easy to use Login Sequence Recorder allows the automatic scanning. It detects Critical Vulnerabilities with 100% Accuracy.

John The Ripper

John the Ripper wins the award for having the coolest name. John the Ripper, mostly just referred to as simply, 'John' is a popular password cracking pen-testing tool that is most commonly used to perform dictionary attacks.

CAIN and ABEL

CAIN and ABEL is a password recovery and hacking tool, primarily used for Microsoft systems. It helps with password recovery by cracking encrypted passwords using a few brute force methods like the dictionary method. Cain & Abel can also record VoIP conversations and recover wireless network keys.

IronWASP

IronWASP is a net app security scanning tool. Its’ simplicity makes it an excellent tool for beginners, as well. It is designed with the variety of security modules integrated.

Aircrack-ng

The Aircrack is a wireless hacking tool that is renowned because of its effectiveness in password cracking. It is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking, the hacking tool that can recover keys when sufficient data packets have been captured. It implements standard FMS attacks along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the PTW attacks to make their attacks more potent.

Acunetix

Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner (WVS) that scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This multi-threaded tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. It is easy to use. It comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows accessing the password-protected areas of websites.

Social-Engineer Toolkit

Social-Engineer Toolkit is partially supported on Mac OS X and Windows. This toolkit is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more.

Kismet

Kismet is a good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon. It is a wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode.

QualysGuard

QualysGuard is a scalable, end-to-end solution for all aspects of IT security. It helps businesses streamline their security and compliance solutions. It also builds security into their digital transformation initiatives. This tool can also check the performance vulnerability of the online cloud systems. It is trusted globally. It sensor provides continuous visibility. It can respond to threats in a real-time.

Hashcat

Hashcat can help to recover lost passwords, audit password security, or just find out what data is stored in a hash. It is a robust password cracking ethical hacking tool. It supports distributed cracking networks. It Integrated thermal watchdog.

Medusa

Medusa is also widely used for ethical hacking. It is speedy, parallel password crackers ethical hacking tool. It allows remote authentication. It allows performing Thread-based parallel testing and Brute-force testing.

 

You can also check our other article about useful websites for hackers.

 

These are best but not the only. There is a huge number of hacking tools and software on the web. Share with us which one is your favorite or best tool, or if you have any other recommendations you can leave your suggestions in the Comments below. Thank you!