Two and a half years after the publication of the last release, the BackBox Linux 8 distribution is available, based on Ubuntu 22.04 and comes with a collection of tools for system security checks, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic and wireless network analysis, malware research, stress -testing, revealing hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. The size of the iso image is 3.9 GB (x86_64).
The new version upgraded system components from Ubuntu 20.04 to the 22.04 branch. The Linux kernel has been updated to release 5.15. Updated versions of included security testing tools and desktop environment components. The ISO image is built in a hybrid format and adapted to boot on systems with UEFI.
Source: opennet.ru