xray VS bettercap

Compare xray vs bettercap and see what are their differences.

xray

XRay is a tool for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks. (by evilsocket)
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xray bettercap
3 28
2,143 15,681
- 1.7%
0.0 1.0
over 1 year ago 21 days ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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xray

Posts with mentions or reviews of xray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
  • Bruter v1.0.0b
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2023
    Hi folks, I released bruter a golang tool that I enjoyed building:

    It is a simple app that was built as an experiment while dusting my Go skils. It is indeed very much inspired by (https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) (but hey not copied ;)). The tooling can be used to test webservers and validate configurations, but not just!

    What does it do?

    It grabs HostInfo data from Shodan APIs, so you will need a Token to try this out

    It collects banners for various services FTP, SSH, MYSQL, IRC, SMTP

    It collects HTTP headers

    It brute force directories on WebServers and reports results (200, 403)

    It produces a Web UI for presentation

    Check it out and let me know what you think! Feedbacks are very welcome :D

  • Bruter v.1.0.0b -- https://github.com/CyberRoute/bruter
    1 project | /r/golang | 25 Mar 2023
    It is a simple app that was built as an experiment while dusting my Go skils. It is indeed very much inspired by (https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) (but hey not copied ;)). The tooling can be used to test webservers and validate configurations, but not just!
  • Awesome Penetration Testing
    124 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2021
    XRay - Network (sub)domain discovery and reconnaissance automation tool.

bettercap

Posts with mentions or reviews of bettercap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.
  • bettercap VS petep - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 3 Oct 2023
  • Malware installed in this bluetooth remote?
    1 project | /r/hacking | 1 Jun 2023
    you can do this with Bettercap
  • bettercap hell
    1 project | /r/netsec | 25 May 2023
  • quicklisp security (or total lack of it)
    6 projects | /r/lisp | 26 Feb 2023
    I've been learning some common lisp, reading through Practical Common Lisp, and it's really neat. People say the good ideas of lisp got adapted in other languages and sure that's true of garbage collection, lambda's and some others, but I'm seeing plenty incredible stuff I haven't seen elsewhere, the condition system that among other things lets you fix and resume your program on exception, real interactive development, flexible object system, macros way more understandable than in other languages with AST macros as in lisp the AST is simple, an expressive dynamic language at high level of ruby and python while being an order of magnitude faster performance. Quicklisp also is really neat, how many other package managers can load new dependencies without restarting your application? And I was learning it with idea that it's not just of historical or hobby interest but legitimately a good choice I can use for new programming projects today for many tasks, but I just learned something that makes it impossible for me to consider, which is complete lack of security of quicklisp. You go to the website and see sha256 hash and PGP signature for quicklisp download, awesome it seems at the security standard you expect for a package manager. But then the actual quicklisp client does all downloads over http with no verification. What this means in practical terms is basically if you use quicklisp, anyone on your local network can easily hack your computer, by MITM (man-in-the-middle) the traffic and serving you backdoored software when you install packages from quicklisp. mitm6 will MITM windows machines on normal networks, bettercap can MITM linux and os x on most networks. Aside from attackers on your local network there's plenty other scenarios, you can go near office of CL using company and set up a open WIFI access point with same name as company wifi and hack their developers, using quicklisp over something like Tor is extremely dangerous at present as it would let the exit node backdoor the packages you download, and then in less likely but still should be protected against scenarios is just if quicklisp.org or any router between you and it is compromised, you can be hacked.
  • Grannar från helvetet
    3 projects | /r/swedishproblems | 18 Feb 2023
  • Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 Networks
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 3 Dec 2022
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 3 Dec 2022
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 3 Dec 2022
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2022
  • Hacker News top posts: Dec 3, 2022
    3 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 3 Dec 2022
    Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 Networks\ (5 comments)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xray and bettercap you can also consider the following projects:

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

aircrack-ng - WiFi security auditing tools suite

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

MITMf - Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks

bruter - Brutuer is an OSINT tooling, an experiment to build a reconnaissance simple app to have fun 🕵️‍♂️

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

wifipumpkin3 - Powerful framework for rogue access point attack.

lynis - Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

pwnagotchi-display-password-plugin - Pwnagotchi plugin to display the most recently cracked password on the Pwnagotchi face

Cppcheck - static analysis of C/C++ code