An Android smartphone can become a truly exceptional tool for doing penetration and intrusion tests in a computer network. Developers, network technicians and curious geeks can try these powerful hacker applications to check for any bugs and vulnerabilities in a network, to optimize the speed of data transmission on the network or even to play the role of hacker and amaze friends with their skills. computer. For the most part, they are serious applications, developed for testing and learning how to safely configure a network.
Here then the best free hacker apps for Android that everyone can install even if many of them need the user to have obtained root permissions on the phone.
Finally, keep in mind that you should not use these tools on public networks of which you are not an administrator.
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1) Fing is a professional app that I have already talked about in the article on apps to scan wifi networks for Android
Equipped with a simple and intuitive interface, the app allows you to evaluate the security levels of the router, solve any problems and find out which devices are connected in a Wi-Fi network. Fing works well even on unlocked smartphones.
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WPS WPA WiFi Tester is an application for discovering passwords for accessing vulnerable wifi networks.
3) Zanti is another professional app for professionals and network technicians that I have already talked about in the article on how to verify LAN / Wifi network security by simulating hacker attacks. Zanti is a collection of network diagnostic tools that allows you to do complex intrusion tests with the push of a button. The app also provides well-structured reports to organize the information collected. To use Zanti completely you need to have a smartphone with root permissions.
4) Network Discovery is a fairly simple application that does not require root access to work, which you can use to get an overview of all the details of the network the phone is connected to.
5) FaceNiff is the Android version of a famous program called Firesheep, capable of hijacking the internet browsing of other devices connected to the network. basically you can make sure that a friend of ours, when trying to visit the Facebook site, is instead led to open a different site.
6) Droidsheep is practically identical, which attempts to capture logins of access to websites, if the information travels unencrypted on the net.
7) Shark for Root is a tool for sniffing and intercepting internet traffic on 3G and wifi networks. Practically it allows to see the unencrypted information transmitted on the internet by the devices connected to the network.
This is practically the version of Wireshark for Android.
8) WPS Tester is an excellent tool for testing Wi-Fi network security flaws to see if you can connect even without knowing the login password. The application works on Android unlocked with root.
9) Nmap is one of the best network scanner programs, available on Windows and also as an Android app.
10) Network Spoofer is an app that I already talked about some time ago, which allows you to divert traffic and redirect the connection to websites.
