Kali Linux 2024.3 Adds 11 New Hacking Tools, Improves Raspberry Pi Support
Coming more than three months after Kali Linux 2024.2, the Kali Linux 2024.3 release introduces 11 new tools, including graudit for source code auditing, gsocket for communication between two machines on different networks, hekatomb for extracting and decrypting all credentials from all domain computers, mxcheck for scanning e-mail servers, and sqlmc for checking all URLs of a domain for SQL injections.
Also included in Kali Linux 2024.3 is netexec, a network service exploitation tool that helps automate assessing the security of large networks, netscanner, a network scanner and diagnostic tool with modern TUI, obsidian, a private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think, sippts, a set of tools to audit SIP based VoIP systems, and sprayhound, a password spraying tool and Bloodhound integration.
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Kali Linux 2024.3 Released, Here's What's New
One of the main features of this release is the inclusion of Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC support in Kali NetHunter Pro devices, broadening the compatibility and enhancing the utility of Kali’s mobile penetration testing platform.
Behind the scenes, there has been a flurry of updates and optimizations. The transition has been intense, with multiple stacks evolving simultaneously, akin to buses arriving all at once. Notably, after completing the t64 transition, developers updated GCC 14, glibc 2.40, and Python 3.12.
While Python 3.12 introduced challenges by removing long-deprecated APIs and breaking some packages, the Kali team has been hard at work ensuring everything aligns smoothly for the next transition.
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Kali Linux 2024.3 comes with 11 new tools and support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC
With a history of over a decade, Kali Linux is a Debian-based distro with a strong focus on digital forensics and penetration testing. It sports around 600 penetration-testing tools, and the latest update, labeled 2024.3, comes with 11 additional ones.
According to the official release announcement (see the source link below the article), Kali Linux 2024.3 also comes with support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC. The aforementioned list of new tools consists of the following: goshs, graudit, gsocket, hekatomb, mxcheck, netexec, netscanner, obsidian, sippts, sprayhound, and sqlmc. Additionally, multiple existing packages have been updated, and new libraries have been added as needed. Moreover, while GCC 14 and glibc 2.40 made it into this release, Python 3.12 has to wait until 2024.4. The reason is that the update removes some old APIs but breaks some packages in the process, so the developers decided to launch Kali Linux 2024.3 with Python 3.11.