Perhaps one of the most publicized hacking activities that are performed with Wireshark is packet interception. In fact, we looked at how we can find login details for Telnet by using Wireshark in this article here. Wireshark is the default packet analyzer for many network professionals, so it should come as no surprise that this powerful freeware tool can also be used for malicious purposes. Most Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (NIDS/NIPS) are able to find network scanning activity when it is present on the network, so if it is an unsanctioned activity, it can be quickly identified and stopped.Ī copy of Angry IP Scanner can be downloaded here. Angry IP Scanner can also find fetchers that relate to each target machine such as TTL, open ports, filtered ports, web detect, HTTP sender, comments, NetBIOS information, MAC address, MAC vendor and even packet loss. Angry IP Scanner is able to identify targets so that other tools can be used to further the attack.

Mapping the network and the devices that are present is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find potential targets.

The most obvious one is reconnaissance work by a potential attacker. However, these same features can also be used for malicious purposes. This is very useful with the many different IoT devices that use ethernet and Wi-Fi to connect to modern networks.

This is especially helpful where there are newly configured devices that haven’t yet been documented, or as a troubleshooting step when trying to diagnose connectivity issues.Īngry IP Scanner is able to scan multiple broadcast domains and find out network host information such as the network name, IP address and MAC address. IP scanners are legitimate tools that can help users to discover devices they weren’t aware of on the network.

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