Hacking took birth as technology did. Hacking can be used both for malicious purposes as well as a means for finding flaws in a system and notify the authorities to help them fortify their defence system better. They just play a role of an ethical hacker. However, the tools and scripts used for hacking are known to all hackers for their own purposes. They help them greatly in their task by performing specific functions to gain leverage over a user’s system in case of non-ethical hackers and against malicious users in case of ethical hackers. Here are few of the top most popular hacking tools of 2017.

TOP 5 MOST POPULAR HACKING TOOLS OF 2017

I have streamlined few of the top 5 most popular hacking tools of 2017.

1. METASPLOIT

Metasploit is a cryptographic tool that is hugely popular when it comes to hackers, whether they are black hat or white hat. It helps hackers gain knowledge about known security vulnerabilities. Its evasion tools are one of the many applications of Metaspoilt. It’s a complete suite of different types of hacking attacks.

2. JOHN THE RIPPER

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.
John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system.
Download John the Ripper.

3. BURP SUITE

Burp suite which is used to map out and list the different parameters and pages of a website merely by examining the cookies and initiating connections with applications residing in the website, is arguably the most important component of Burp Suite. Vulnerabilities in the web applications can be easily identified using Burp Suite, and many hackers employ this method to find a suitable point of attack.

4. CAIN & ABEL

Cain & Abel is a password recovery and hacking tool, primarily used for Microsoft systems. It helps with password recovery by cracking encrypted passwords using a few brute force methods like the dictionary method. Cain & Abel can also record VoIP conversations and recover wireless network keys.

5. ETTERCAP

Ettercap is a free and open source network security tool for man-in-the-middle attacks on LAN. It can be used for computer network protocol analysis and security auditing. It runs on various Unix-like operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Solaris, and on Microsoft Windows. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a network segment, capturing passwords, and conducting active eavesdropping against a number of common protocols.

These are the top 5 most popular hacking tools of 2017. There are many other tools but this time these are the top  of them.