Social engineering attack tools

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is an open source penetration testing framework. SET is written in Python and helps with assignments that require social engineering. The toolkit has been presented at large-scale conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON and covered in several books. This publicity definitely helped to make it more familiar in the information security community.

Wifiphisher would have a good usage in security assessments to obtain credentials. In that regard it is considered to be an offensive tool, especially considering it could be used to infect the systems of victims with malware. Wifiphisher is not a brute forcing tool, but more focused to perform a social engineering attack.