Cryptcat Hacking Tool
People love to break the rules of the society or sometimes even
laws. You don’t need to have much wit to go shoplifting or robbering.
But hacking is not about tangible things one can steal. It’s all
about information. And this might be much more worse. The majority
of people understands neither the purpose nor the ways of hacking,
but anyone who was ever involved into it knows how much harm it can
bring to a company or an individual. There are many tools hackers
can use to reach goal and the most popular one is
Netcat. Originally this software was developed in 1996 by a
hacker nicknamed Hobbit. The reason was he wanted to have an ability
to work with any Telnet.
In general, Netcat is a
Unix utility which allowes user to establish TCP (Transmission
Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) connections, send
and receive data until connection is terminated. This is in fact the
basic principle of TCP/UDP subsystem networking and it lets user to
interact via network using various commands and scripts. The tool
makes it possible to see the TCP and UDP data bursts before they are
repacked according to the higher-level protocols like FTP (File
Transfer Protocol), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) or HTTP
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
The name “Netcat” originally comes from the basic Unix command
“cat”. As you might already know (in case you are Unix user), it
concatenates and displays files. The name of the command itself
comes from the word “catenate”, which appears to be the synonym of
“concatenate”.
Netcat is widely-used, that’s why it can be compared with a swiss-army
knife for TCP/IP and UDP, because it allows you to:
- establish TCP or
UDP connections to & from any port
- check DNS and get appropriate warnings
- use various local source ports
- configure your network address
- scan ports (randomization available)
- read command line arguments
- slow down data-sending process
- hex-dump sent and received data
- let another programs to service connections
- perform special tunneling with specified network parameters
When used by a hacker, all of this means that, in case you never
bother to get an efficient protection, he can get the full control
over your computer. There are various tutorials on the web teaching
everyone who’s interested how to hide IP’s, establish hidden
connections, steal data and many many other things.
Cryptcat in fact is the modification of Netcat that supports
data encryption. This feature makes it much more complicated to
track a hacker. That’s why the majority of them now uses it instead
of the Netcat. Though both Netcat and later Cryptcat were designed
to provide security, they appear to be in any hacker’s must-have
list of programmes.
Download Cryptcat Windows Version
Download Cryptcat Linux/Unix Version (Source Tarball)
The majority of hackers work under Unix operating systems, because
it provides more comfortable and efective environment for
programming (comparing to Windows operating system), but there are
also Cryptcat and Netcat versions for Windws NT available. And there
is for sure no difference, what system does a victim run. If he does
not have a high security level set up and is of interest for being
hacked (almost any person can be) he’ll have his data stolen,
because Cryptcat is able to get an access to any unprotected host
port.
We have already mentioned the ability of Cryptcat (the name of the
program itself gives us a hint) to encrypt the transferred data. And
as a powerful back-end tool it also lets user to hide his IP and
establish connection a victim would not know about. A hacker would
also be able to run commands on your computer through the
connection. If you look through the features of Crypcat listed in
this article again, you will find out that it can easily switch
ports and slow down the data sending process, so that you will never
get an idea of being hacked, until you find out that, perhaps, your
passwords,
accounts information and credit-cards numbers are stolen.
To sum up, Cryptcat is a powerful networking tool with almost
unlimited performance capabilities. On the one hand, it can provide
security and save your information, but on the other hand any
experienced hacker has it installed. And not only for security
purposes.