Top 5 Wifi Hacking software for Linux OS Loved by every hacker in the world

4 min readJan 28, 2020

Wifi Hacking is the most trending activity nowadays. You have a good and active internet connection at your home, still, you want to use your neighbor’s wifi.

If you are one of them and want to hack neighbor’s wifi or willing to access free internet through wifi access point listed in your device.

You should not forget that your neighbor is searching for the same activity. If you have wifi access point at your home or office, then a bad man sitting behind you will try to hack your wifi.

Your first task Secure your wifi network before trying to hack nearby wifi access point. Here you can go 5 Tips, How to secure wifi from hacking If you will follow these tips no one can hack into your wifi easily.

What is the wifi hacking software used by a hacker to hack into wifi? I think this question is revolving your head. This article will help you to find out this software.

cyberpratibha.com/…/top-10-tools-for-hacking-wirelessly-that-should-protect-yourself-from Are you looking for wifi Hacking Software?

If yes, this post is useful for you. I will provide description and download links of tools used for wifi hacking. Here you will go to get information about the software.

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is the most popular wifi hacking software used to crack WEP, WPA/WPA2, and WPS. Sometimes hackers use to crack the security of wifi radius server too. Aircrack-ng is a bundle of multiple tools such as airmon-ng, airodump-ng, aireplay-ng etc. if you don’t know how to use this tool, then visit official website of aircrack-ng website http://www.aircrack-ng.org/

Wifite

This is an awesome tool, you can perform multiple attacks, WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS in a row. Wifite aims to be the “set it and forget it” wireless auditing tool. Features:

sorts targets by signal strength (in dB); cracks closest access points first
automatically de-authenticates clients of hidden networks to reveal SSIDs
numerous filters to specify exactly what to attack (WEP/WPA/both, above certain signal strengths, channels, etc)
customizable settings (timeouts, packets/sec, etc)
“anonymous” feature; changes MAC to a random address before attacking, then changes back when attacks are complete
all captured WPA handshakes are backed up to wifite.py’s current directory
smart WPA de-authentication; cycles between all clients and broadcast deauths
stop any attack with Ctrl+C, with options to continue, move onto next target, skip to cracking, or exit
displays session summary at exit; shows any cracked keys
all passwords saved to cracked.txt

Reaver

Reaver wifi hacking software for Linux. Reaver performs brute force against WPS ( Wifi Protected Setup). In this setup, a pin number is required to connect wifi no matter what security is implemented WEP or WPA/WPA2. It can get password both. In normal condition, Reaver will recover password against Wpa/wpa2 within 4–8 hours, depending on AP.

Fern Wifi Cracker

If you love GUI interface, you will love this wifi hacking tool. because it has GUI. It helps to crack WEP, WPA/WPA2 & WPS security. It has lots of other features like MITM, sniffing, Session hijacking etc. Features:

WEP Cracking with Fragmentation, Chop-Chop, Caffe-Latte, Hirte, ARP Request Replay or WPS attack
WPA/WPA2 Cracking with Dictionary or WPS based attacks
Automatic saving of key in database on successful crack
Automatic Access Point Attack System
Session Hijacking (Passive and Ethernet Modes)
Access Point MAC Address Geo Location Tracking
Internal MITM Engine
Bruteforce Attacks (HTTP,HTTPS,TELNET,FTP)
Update Support

PixieWPS

PixieWPS is very simple and effective tool use to crack WPS security.
Features:

Checksum optimization: it’ll try first for valid PINs (11'000);
Reduced entropy of the seed from 32 to 25 bits for the C LCG pseudo-random function;
Small Diffie-Hellman keys: don’t need to specify the Public Registrar Key if the same option is used with Reaver.

MODULE 14:- WiFi Hacking and Security

Originally published at https://www.cyberpratibha.com on January 28, 2020.