How to Use THC-Hydra (BSWR)

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Time

9 minutes

Difficulty

Intermediate

THC-Hydra offers brute force passwords, cracking and can perform rapid dictionary attacks against many protocols. The tool can utilize a password list, for example, the ‘Rockyou.txt’ password list or create your own. The THC-Hydra tool ...

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1.1 THC-Hydra (BSWR)

This tool offers brute force passwords, cracking and can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more than 50 protocols. The tool can also utilize a password list, for example, the ‘Rockyou.txt’ password list or create your own. The THC-Hydra tool offers flexibility to add new modules to it and works across multiple platforms including Linux, MacOS, Windows.

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