On top of that, Ettercap comes with plugin support, a fact that allows you to expand its feature list by adding new plugins. In other words, Ettercap acts as a “man in the middle” which can deploy various attacks on its targets. Expand Ettercap’s capabilities with the help of various plugins With Ettercap’s help, you’ll be able to intercept traffic on a given network segment, capture passwords and actively conduct active man-in-the-middle attacks against a number of common protocols.Įttercap is capable to successfully put a network interface into promiscuous mode and it can also send fake Address Resolution Protocol messages to the targeted machines via the Local Area Network. Helps you conduct complex and comprehensive security audits on a wide variety of LAN configurationsĮttercap is designed to test if various hosts on a local network are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, as well as to see if you can sniff live connections, filter traffic content, to actively or passively dissect various protocols and more. Ettercap is a lightweight yet powerful command line application mainly designed for computer network protocol analysis and security auditing.
