THC Hydra (thc-hydra)

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
AGPL 3.0
Programming language
C
Latest release
9.5
Latest release date

Project health

78
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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.