masscan VS bettercap

Compare masscan vs bettercap and see what are their differences.

masscan

TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes. (by robertdavidgraham)
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masscan bettercap
64 28
22,564 15,655
- 1.4%
7.8 1.0
about 1 month ago 11 days ago
C Go
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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masscan

Posts with mentions or reviews of masscan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

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 masscan and bettercap you can also consider the following projects:

RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

aircrack-ng - WiFi security auditing tools suite

zmap - ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.

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

amass - In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

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

nuclei - Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

wifipumpkin3 - Powerful framework for rogue access point attack.

zgrab2-configurations - A repository for possible zgrab2 configurations

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

SQLMap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework