Ettercap Alternatives

Ettercap is described as 'Suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks' and is a network analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ettercap for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Self-Hosted apps. The best Ettercap alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ettercap are NetworkMiner, Intercepter-NG, netcat and PCAPdroid.

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  1. Native Cocoa app for capturing and analyzing packets. Similar to Wireshark, but with a native interface (and less features). If you don't like the X11 GTK Wireshark, this is your app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Packet sniffer tool that captures all HTTP requests/responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple table.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Pirni Pro icon
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    Pirni Pro is a network security tool designed for iOS, and specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a wireless network segment, capturing passwords, and regular expressions entered by the user.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  4.  Like

    TUI tool for generating packets of arbitrary input and monitoring packets on any network interfaces (default: eth0). The list of interfaces to be specified is output when packemon --interfaces is run. This tool works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  5. Timesketch is an open-source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis. Using sketches you and your collaborators can easily organize your timelines and analyze them all at the same time. Add meaning to your raw data with rich annotations, comments, tags and stars.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Termshark icon
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    If you're debugging on a remote machine with a large pcap and no desire to scp it back to your desktop, termshark can help!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. AirSnare icon
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    AirSnare is another tool to add to your Wireless Intrusion Detection Toolbox. AirSnare will alert you to unfriendly MAC addresses on your network and will also alert you to DHCP requests taking place.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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