Red Teamers act and think like real-world cyber attackers. The "Red Team" imitates the real attacker's techniques and procedures in order to find and report weaknesses in the organization's infrastructure to the administration.
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"Red Team" is a group of white-hat or Ethical Hackers, also known as
offensive security experts, who are recruited to act as actual attackers in a
business and expose their vulnerabilities so that the blue teams, or security
defenders, may uncover and repair the flaws.
In this
blog, let's talk about the top five tools you need as a Red Team Ethical Hacker.
SpiderFoot: SpiderFoot is a reconnaissance tool that automatically scans over 100
public data sources to acquire information on email addresses, IP addresses,
names, domain names, and many other things.
Nikto: Nikto is a free and open-source command-line vulnerability scanning
tool that checks web servers for important outdated server software,
CGIs/Files, and other issues. Nikto performs both severe and general
type-specific inspections. If it receives any cookies, it prints and records
them.
Nmap: Most people are familiar with Nmap, which is a fantastic
reconnaissance tool. In addition to being a network scanner, it has plenty of
other handy capabilities. Using Nmap, the Red Team can learn a lot about any
machine that can be contacted via the network. The use of network scanning, on
the other hand, must be done with caution because it is quickly identified.
Pupy: Pupy (not "puppy") is a cross-platform open-source
post-exploitation tool with remote administration capabilities. Composed
primarily in Python, this is another difficult tool to recognize, presenting it
as a fantastic addition to the red team toolset. Red teams may create Windows
payloads that can run non-interactive commands on several hosts and exploit
Windows at the same time. The BeRoot and LaZagne utilities can alternatively be
seen as post-exploitation modules.
BloodHound: BloodHound is a well-known security tool for both Red and Blue Teams.
This tool reflects active directory environments, including users, and exposes
access control lists and their relationships. As a red-teaming tool, BloodHound
aids in the discovery of multiple attack pathways to the target as well as the
recognition of privilege linkages while conducting domain escalation.
Final words
A Red Team is a group of security experts who
proactively simulate how cyber attacks can be conducted against an organization
in real-time. Red teams use various techniques, including social engineering,
to attack all attack vectors, including physical security controls and access
to sensitive data. If you are willing to become a Red Team Expert,
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