Crack FTP Usernames and Passwords via Wireshark- A Packet Sniffing Tool

If you read by precious post on How to create an FTP server on your home Computer, then you will also love to read this post on How to Crack its Usernames & Passwords also. Hence today I am going to tell you this with one of the popular Packet sniffing tool called as Wireshark which has the power to crack anything in bytes as well as in alphabets also. So first start with its definition and working module- Basically Wireshark is a Packet sniffing tool in which it captures packets while going through a network. Below is a screenshot of it in working process.

Procedure

1. First of all download Wireshark from here and install it on your computer plus make sure to install Winpcap which comes with Wireshark installation package also.
2. Now go to capture button at the top and start monitoring.
3. Now type “FTP” at the filter and it will filter out all ftp connections.
4. As you scroll down you will find the “FTP username” and “Password” for victims ftp account and you will be done.

Other benefits

1. This method or tool can also be used as to know your victims Facebook Cookies usually datr and inject them via Cookie injector (Add-on) in Mozilla Firefox etc. This hack is known as FB cookie Authentication  hack.
2. This process can be used to hack Wireless networks also.

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