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Python Scripting for Hackers, Part 1: Getting Started

January 15, 2024January 30, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! I began this series on scripting a while back to teach all aspiring hackers how to write some basic scripts for hacking and reconnaissance. Without developing some basic scripting skills, the aspiring hacker will be condemned to the realm of the script kiddie. This means that you will be limited […]

Python Basics for Hackers, Part 5: Creating a Web Site Scraper to Find Potential Passwords

December 15, 2023January 5, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Creating password lists is a key element of a successful password cracking strategy. In nearly every case, we need to provide a list of potential passwords to the password cracking tool whether it be hashcat, John the Ripper, BurpSuite, cameradar or others (the exception being a true brute force attack […]

Reconnaissance: Scanning and DoSing with Scapy

December 11, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! We have explored a number of packet manipulation tools here on Hackers-Arise that can be very effective for network scanning, such as nmap and hping. As you know, almost any packet crafting/manipulation tool can also be used for DoSing (denial-of-service attacks). Given the power of creating just about any type […]

Python Basics for Hackers, Part 4: How to Find the Exact Location of any IP Address

December 9, 2023December 9, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! As hackers, we instinctively want to know as much as possible. Among this desired information may be the Geo-Location of an IP address. Thankfully for us, our friends over at MaxMind have built a database that’ll do just that! Thing is, if we want to use it, we have to […]

Python Scripting for Hackers, Part 3: Building an FTP Password Cracking Tool

December 7, 2023January 2, 2024Occupy The Web

This is the third installment of my Python scripting series. If you haven’t read the previous two articles, take some time now to go back and read Part 1 (Introduction) and Part 2 (Building a Banner Grabbing Tool) before you proceed here. As I mentioned in previous tutorials, Python is probably the most widely used […]

Metasploit Basics, Part 18: Marrying the Power of Shodan with Metasploit

December 1, 2023January 1, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back my rookie hackers! Every so often, I run across a new hacking tool that really gets me excited. Autosploit is one of those! Autosploit combines the power of two of my favorite tools, Shodan and Metasploit! AutoSploit uses Shodan to find specific targets based upon their banners and then Metasploit to automate the […]

Python Scripting for Hackers, Part 2: Building a Banner Grabbing Tool

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023Occupy The Web

In an earlier tutorial, I introduced you to probably the most popular scripting language for hackers, Python. To become a professional hacker, you need to have some scripting skills and Python is a good choice if you want to master just one. In this latest guide, I will expand your background in Python and offer […]

Wi-Fi Hacking: Creating a Wi-Fi Scanner with Python and Scapy

February 18, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Although there are numerous tools to hack Wi-Fi (802.11), to create your own tools you will need to understand the Wi-Fi protocol. In a previous tutorial, I explained the various types of frames in Wi-Fi. Now we will use that information to crate our own Wi-Fi scanner very similar […]