#hackertool

Cyber Criminals are using various malicious tools for cyberattacks based on the target’s strength to infiltrate the sensitive data and more often nowadays Publicly Available Hacking Tools are mainly used by threat actors for various attacks around the world. Today in the cyberworlds hacking tools are openly available with various functionalities and freely available that can be accessed by anyone from cybercriminals and get it from various hacking forums and dark web marketplace.

Also, these tools have been used to compromise information across a wide range of critical sectors, including health, finance, government defense, and many other sectors.

Day by day threat actors learning new tactics and techniques to find new ways and developing new sophisticated tools to maintain their persistence and evade the security systems.

Here we can see the most used top 5 publicly available hacking tools by threat actors and also you can learn the best ethical hacking course online & offline in order to enhance your skills and keep you updated.

RAT – Remote Access Trojan {JBiFrost}

Remote Access Trojan provides access to cybercriminals who can perform various malicious activities from the target system.

Especially  JBiFrost remote access trojan (RAT) which is one of the powerful Adwind RAT variants that gives root access to the attacker.

Also, it contains many functions and it is used to install backdoors and keyloggers, take screenshots, and exfiltrate data.

To prevent forensic analysis, it disables security measures, such as Task Manager, and network analysis tools, such as Wireshark, on the victim’s system.

Capabilities

JBiFrost RAT is Java-based, cross-platform and multifunctional. It poses a threat to several different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, MAC OS X, and Android.

Based on past records, it exfiltrated intellectual property, banking credentials and Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Machines infected with JBiFrost can also be used in botnets to carry out Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Credential Stealers {Mimikatz}

Mainly goal of this tool for attackers to collect the credentials of other users logged in to a targeted Windows machine.

Mimikatz is one of this category by accessing the credentials in memory, within a Windows process called Local Security Authority Subsystem Service.

These credentials, either plain text or in hashed form, can be reused to give access to other machines on a network.

Mimikatz has been used by multiple actors for malicious purposes such as gained to a host and threat actor wishes to move throughout the internal network.

The mimikarz source code is publicly available and anyone can compile and add their own future and develop new custom plug-ins and additional functionality.

Many features of Mimikatz can be automated with scripts, such as PowerShell, permit attackers to rapidly exploit and traverse a compromised network.