The release of the Kali Linux 2021.4 distribution kit, designed to test systems for vulnerabilities, conduct audits, analyze residual information, and identify the consequences of intruder attacks, saw the light of day. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several variants of iso images have been prepared for download, 466 MB, 3.1 GB and 3.7 GB in size. Builds are available for i386, x86_64, ARM architectures (armhf and armel, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, ARM Chromebook, Odroid). The Xfce desktop is offered by default, but KDE, GNOME, MATE, LXDE, and Enlightenment e17 are optionally supported.
Kali includes one of the most comprehensive collections of tools for computer security professionals, from web application testing and wireless network penetration testing to RFID reader. The kit includes a collection of exploits and over 300 specialized security tools such as Aircrack, Maltego, SAINT, Kismet, Bluebugger, Btcrack, Btscanner, Nmap, p0f. In addition, the distribution kit includes tools for accelerating password guessing (Multihash CUDA Brute Forcer) and WPA keys (Pyrit) through the use of CUDA and AMD Stream technologies, which allow using GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD video cards to perform computational operations.
In the new release:
- The Samba client has been reconfigured to be compatible with any Samba server, regardless of the protocol option chosen on the server, making it easier to discover vulnerable Samba servers on the network. The compatibility mode can be changed using the kali-tweaks utility.
- In kali-tweaks, in the mirror settings, the ability to accelerate the delivery of updates using the CloudFlare content delivery network is provided.
- Support for changing themes and icon sets has been added to the Kaboxer utilities, including the ability to use a dark theme.
- Added new utilities:
- Dufflebag - search for confidential information in EBS sections;
- Maryam is an open source OSINT framework;
- Name-That-Hash - hash type definition;
- Proxmark3 - attacks on RFID tags using Proxmark3 devices;
- Reverse Proxy Grapher - building a diagram of data flows through a reverse proxy;
- S3Scanner - scans unprotected S3 environments and displays their contents;
- Spraykatz - extraction of credentials from Windows systems and environments based on Active Directory;
- truffleHog - analysis of sensitive data in Git repositories;
- Web of trust grapher (wotmate) is a PGP pathfinder implementation.
- Updated versions of Xfce, GNOME 41 and KDE Plasma 5.23 desktops, as well as unified the design of window control buttons in different desktops.
- In Xfce, the layout of elements in the panel is optimized to save horizontal screen space. Widgets for monitoring CPU load and displaying VPN parameters have been added to the panel. The task manager has a more compact mode, which displays only application icons. When browsing the contents of virtual desktops, only buttons are displayed instead of thumbnails.
- Improved support for Apple systems based on the M1 ARM chip.
- The edition for ARM systems by default uses the ext4 filesystem for the root partition (instead of ext3), added support for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board, added the ability to boot from a USB drive for Raspberry Pi boards, and the ability to overclock the processor to 2GHz for the Pinebook Pro laptop.
- At the same time, NetHunter 2021.4 was released, an environment for mobile devices based on the Android platform with a selection of tools for testing systems for vulnerabilities. Using NetHunter, it is possible to check the implementation of attacks specific to mobile devices, for example, through emulation of the operation of USB devices (BadUSB and HID Keyboard - emulation of a USB network adapter that can be used for MITM attacks, or a USB keyboard that performs character substitution) and the creation of fake access points (MANA Evil Access Point). NetHunter is installed into the stock Android platform environment in the form of a chroot image that runs a specially adapted version of Kali Linux. The new version adds Social-Engineer Toolkit and Spear Phishing Email Attack module.
Source: opennet.ru