THC Hydra (thc-hydra)
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- AGPL 3.0
- Programming language
- C
- Latest release
- 9.5
- Latest release date
Project health
Usage and audience
THC Hydra is commonly used for penetration testing or security assessment. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
- + Project is mature (10+ years)
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
THC Hydra is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a password cracker.