BeEF
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Ruby
- Author
- Wade Alcorn
- Latest release
- 0.5.4.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
BeEF is used by penetration testers to assess the security of a system by leveraging the web browser. This makes the tool different to many other tools, as it ignores the security on network or system level. It uses command modules from within the web browser to perform requested attacks against the system.
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