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This video demonstrates the working of HYDRA, an online password cracking tool,

Here Before we start ‘HYDRA’ we’ll lookup our current IP address using ‘ifconfiz’ command. We’ll also scan one of our target hosts using ‘Nmap’

In the target tab we will specify the address, port and protocol for our target (obtained by Nmap scan earlier).
We will now specify the target’s username and a wordlist containing possible password

Let’s view the contents of the wordlist file

The program also allows you to fine tune your attack parameters
Program has now discovered the password for our specified username.
Now let’s look at another example, this time lets break into a FTP Server

Now user suppose that we did not know user name of our target we will then specify a target list similar to password list provided in our earlier attack


Let’s decrease the number of simultaneous connection to minimize network congestion.

You can see that program has discover both user name and password
Let’s access our target using the ...