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Hydra (software)
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<h2 id="functionality">Functionality</h2> <p>Hydra can launch attacks on multiple targets at once using threads, called hydra heads. The tool keeps track of the threads using another structure, the hydra brain. Each target is attacked using a module that corresponds to a protocol(eg. if the target is an SSH server, the SSH module is used). </p> <h2 id="supported-protocols">Supported protocols</h2> <p>Hydra supports many common login protocols like forms on websites, <a href="/facts/FTP/THuWgzfw">FTP</a>, <a href="/facts/Server_Message_Block/pWM35pl8">SMB</a>, <a href="/facts/POP3/QCp6qJQm">POP3</a>, <a href="/facts/IMAP/QMnyvUwk">IMAP</a>, <a href="/facts/MySQL/QEEDNBDP">MySQL</a>, <a href="/facts/VNC/xTmWVgV4">VNC</a>, <a href="/facts/Secure_Shell/wjVRw5zv">SSH</a>, <a href="/facts/HTTP/TWtvf7JD">HTTP(S)</a> and others.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.thc.org">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>McNab, Chris (November 2011). Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-596-51933-9. <a href="978-0-596-51933-9" target="_blank">978-0-596-51933-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Crunch | Kali Linux Tools". <a href="https://tools.kali.org/password-attacks/crunch" target="_blank">https://tools.kali.org/password-attacks/crunch</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"CUPP - Common User Passwords Profiler". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-02-04. <a href="https://github.com/Mebus/cupp" target="_blank">https://github.com/Mebus/cupp</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Debian -- Details of package hydra in buster". packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2020-05-26. <a href="https://packages.debian.org/stable/main/hydra" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/stable/main/hydra</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>