In addition, we've upgraded and tweaked the dash-to-dock extension, making it integrate better with the new look and fixing some bugs. With GNOME 42, there is one new feature that is brighter than all of the others: the screenshot and screen-recording tool. It's an enormous improvement in terms of user experience. This new Plasma release focuses on smoothing out wrinkles, evolving the design, and improving the overall feel and usability of the environment:. This modification also removes the CPU graph widget, not only due to the horizontal space it required, but also because it had a performance hit in low spec ARM devices. It has been some time since the last update of the kali menu.

This time the icons for nmap, ffuf, and edb-debugger were improved and updated, and new ones were added for evil-winrm and bloodhound. Another improvement for the app dashboard is that the programs that include a user interface will now respect the custom icon provided by Kali. Previously, the icon in the app drawer showed the proper image, but once you launched it, the icon hardcoded to the program took preference, usually using a lower quality and pixelated image. This change will only affect KDE and GNOME desktops and, unfortunately, does not work on Xfce. Thankfully, this issue was more noticeable in these desktops, as icons in Xfce's panel are tiny. With the end of just around the corner, we are pushing out the last release of the year with Kali Linux As we announced in Kali We also have updated the open-vm-tools package, and Kali's installer will automatically detect if you are installing under VMware and install the open-vm-tools-desktop package, which should allow you to change the resolution out of the box.

As a reminder, this is still a preview from VMware, so there may be some rough edges. There is no extra documentation for this because the installation process is the same as VMWare on bit and bit Intel systems, just using the arm64 ISO. Starting Kali Linux This change should make it easier to discover vulnerable Samba servers "out of the box", without having to configure Kali. This setting can be changed easily via the command-line tool kali-tweaks. In the Hardening section, one can choose the value Default instead, which reverts back to Samba's usual default, and only allow using modern versions of the Samba protocol. A quick run down of what's been added to the network repositories :. This release brings updates for all the 3 main desktops Xfce, GNOME, and KDE , but one that is common to all of them is the new window buttons design.

Previous buttons were designed to fit the window theme of Xfce but did not work well with the other desktops and lacked personality. The new design looks elegant on any of the desktops and makes it easier to spot the currently focused window. The panel layout has been tweaked to optimize horizontal space and make room for 2 new widgets: the CPU usage widget and the VPN IP widget, which remains hidden unless a VPN connection is established. Following the steps of other desktops, the task manager has been configured to "icons only", which, with the slight increase in the panel's height, makes the overall look cleaner and improves multitasking in smaller displays.

The workspaces overview has been configured to the "Buttons" appearance, as the previous configuration "Miniature view" was too wide and a bit confusing for some users. Now that each workspace button takes less space in the panel, we have increased the default number of workspaces to 4, as it's a usual arrangement in Linux desktops. To finish with the modifications, a shortcut to PowerShell has been added to the terminals dropdown menu. With this addition, you can now choose between the regular terminal, root terminal, and PowerShell. Overview Certified What's New Similar to 6. Why is Kali Linux popular among hackers? How many tools does Kali Linux include? How secure is Kali Linux? Is Kali Linux portable? What Linux distribution is Kali Linux based on? What version of Kali Linux should I download?

What's New Before the year is over, we thought it was best to get the final release out. A summary of the changelog since August's For installing a desktop environment, we have the following kali-docs page: Setting up RDP with Xfce We hope in we can revisit this again and are looking at doing ARM64 architecture, as well as different variations of images, allowing you to choose from a mixture of headless bare-bones install, the traditional environment, and a mixture of everything in-between. More Platforms We are now including a QEMU image with our pre-generated images. Social Networks We have expanded the social networks which we post on, as well as refreshing the current ones.

As a recap: Facebook: facebook. exchange Twitter: twitter. Previous release notes In light of "Hacker Summer Camp " BlackHat USA, BSides LV, and DEFCON occurring right now, we wanted to push out Kali Linux The highlights for Kali's Help Wanted - We are looking for a Go developer to help us on an open-source project Kali NetHunter Updates - New releases in our NetHunter store Virtual Machines Updates - New VirtualBox image format, weekly images, and build-scripts to build your own New Tools In Kali - Would not be a release without some new tools! Please note, we will not be recording these sessions. These are live sessions only. New Tools in Kali It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! Test Lab Environment "A craftsman is only as good as their tools. We are trying to make it a bit easier to build up your test lab.

So we have packaged up: DVWA - Damn Vulnerable Web Application Juice Shop - OWASP Juice Shop Kali for Virtual Machines We have already provided Kali Linux images for VMware and VirtualBox since the start. Previous release notes Added Net Installer Mirror. The summary of the changelog since the Here is a preview of the upgraded Kali themes for gnome-shell: Kali-Dark: Kali-Light: GNOME 42's Built-In Screenshot and Screencast Tool With GNOME 42, there is one new feature that is brighter than all of the others: the screenshot and screen-recording tool.

Thank you DavidAlvesWeb! Configure mousepad text editor to add the missing newline at the end of the file POSIX standard : It was especially problematic if you used the text file in the terminal. Printing two files would show their respective last and first lines joined. Set the default wallpaper for multi-monitor setups Fix mouse pointer size to prevent auto-scaling in large displays New simplified panel layout for arm devices: The layout we generally use for Xfce works perfectly, but it could not fit in undersized displays.

This issue was common on ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi, which can use a screen the size of the board. Therefore, we have created an alternative panel layout that gets automatically applied for all ARM-based images. Here is an example of a display with a x resolution: This modification also removes the CPU graph widget, not only due to the horizontal space it required, but also because it had a performance hit in low spec ARM devices. App Icons It has been some time since the last update of the kali menu. Before: After: Previous release notes With the end of just around the corner, we are pushing out the last release of the year with Kali Linux As a reminder, virtual machines on Apple Silicon are still limited to arm64 architecture only. Extended Compatibility for the Samba Client Starting Kali Linux A quick run down of what's been added to the network repositories : Dufflebag - Search exposed EBS volumes for secrets Maryam - Open-source Intelligence OSINT Framework Name-That-Hash - Do not know what type of hash it is?

Name That Hash will name that hash type! Proxmark3 - if you are into Proxmark3 and RFID hacking Reverse Proxy Grapher - graphviz graph illustrating your reverse proxy flow S3Scanner - Scan for open S3 buckets and dump the contents Spraykatz - Credentials gathering tool automating remote procdump and parse of lsass process. Xfce The panel layout has been tweaked to optimize horizontal space and make room for 2 new widgets: the CPU usage widget and the VPN IP widget, which remains hidden unless a VPN connection is established. Kali Linux Download. Kali Linux ISO bit Kali Linux ISO bit Kali Linux for Apple M1 Kali Portable ISO bit Kali Portable ISO bit Kali Portable for Apple M1 Kali Mate bit Fast servers and clean downloads.

Tested on TechSpot Labs. Here's why you can trust us. Last updated:. December 7, Kali Linux. User rating:. We're not in Ubuntu Anymore: The Linux Distros You've Probably Never Heard About Before. Software similar to Kali Linux 6. Kali Linux Nethunter for Android The Kali Linux NetHunter project is the first Open Source Android penetration testing platform for Nexus devices, created as a joint effort between the Kali community member "BinkyBear" and Offensive Security. Linux Kernel 6. Arch Linux Search Downloads. BlueStacks App Player. Kali Linux for Android. macOS Sierra. We list 3 of these methods below:. You can download an ISO image through the torrents, and it will also pull down a file - unsigned - containing the calculated SHA signature.

This method, while the most complex, has the advantage of providing independent assurance of the integrity of the image. The only way this method can fail is if the official Kali Linux private key is not only subverted by an attacker, but also not subsequently revoked by the Kali Linux development team. For this method, see the section on verification using the SHASUMS file. Do this with the following command:. If you downloaded the ISO directly from the downloads page, verify it using the following procedure. To verify your download. Certain versions of Windows do not have the native ability to calculate SHA checksums. If you do not have certutil installed, you can use a utility such as Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier or Hashtab to verify your download.

If you downloaded your copy of the Kali Linux ISO image via the torrents, in addition to the ISO file e. You can use this file to verify the authenticity of your download on Linux or macOS with the following command:. For Windows, provided you have certutil you can use the command above and then manually check the contents of the txt file to see if the two SHA sums match. If certutil is not available, any of the tools stated above would be able to provide you the SHA sum of your download. If you are unable to verify the authenticity of the Kali Linux image you have downloaded as described in the preceding section, do NOT use it! Using it could endanger not only your own system, but any network you connect to as well as the other systems on that network. Stop, and ensure that you have downloaded the images from a legitimate Kali Linux mirror. If using Powershell on Windows you may receive a fully uppercase result.

This can cause an error when comparing the two sums. Send this result through a converter to get a proper result. This is a more complex procedure, but offers a much higher level of validation: it does not rely on the integrity of the web site you downloaded the image from, only the official Kali Linux development team key that you install independently. Before verifying the checksums of the image, you must ensure that the SHASUMS file is the one generated by Kali Linux. Once you have downloaded both SHASUMS and SHASUMS.

Kali is a popular distro among the security community due to its design, it incorporates tools oriented towards penetration testing, security research, computer forensics and reverse engineering. Kali Linux became mainstream popular thanks to the TV Series Mr. Kali Linux is preinstalled with over penetration-testing programs, including nmap a port scanner , Wireshark a packet analyzer , John the Ripper a password cracker , Aircrack-ng a software suite for penetration-testing wireless LANs , Burp suite and OWASP ZAP both web application security scanners. Kali Linux is developed in a secure location with only a small number of trusted people that are allowed to commit packages, with each package being signed by the developer. Kali also has a custom-built kernel that is patched for injection. This was primarily added because the development team found they needed to do a lot of wireless assessments. Kali Linux can run natively when installed on a PC, can be booted from a live CD or live USB, or it can run within a virtual machine.

It is a supported platform of the Metasploit Project's Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing security exploits. Kali Linux is based on Debian Wheezy. Most packages Kali uses are imported from the Debian repositories. Each version of Kali Linux is optimized for a specific purpose or platform. First, you have to establish your system's architecture. If your system is bit and you want to have a permanent installation, the Kali Linux ISO bit is your choice. If you want to try Kali Linux without having to install it, the portable versions are the way to go. Kali Linux was developed by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security through the rewrite of BackTrack, their previous forensics Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. The third core developer Raphaël Hertzog joined them as Debian expert. Before the year is over, we thought it was best to get the final release out. Today we are publishing Kali Linux This is ready for immediate download or updating existing installations.

Its been a long time coming, but we are very happy to announce that Kali has been added to Microsoft Azure again - and this time to stay! Following in the foot steps of our Amazon AWS image, we are using the same kali-cloud build-scripts now to automate publishing to Microsoft Azure store. Out of the box, currently, there is no graphical user interface, or any tools pre-installed. Should you want the default toolset kali-linux-default or any other combination of metapackages, it should be like any other Kali platform. For installing a desktop environment, we have the following kali-docs page: Setting up RDP with Xfce. We hope in we can revisit this again and are looking at doing ARM64 architecture, as well as different variations of images, allowing you to choose from a mixture of headless bare-bones install, the traditional environment, and a mixture of everything in-between.

We are now including a QEMU image with our pre-generated images. We hope this makes it easier for the people who use self-hosted Proxmox Virtual Environments VE , virt-manager, or libvirt! On that subject, elrey alex from the community has added libvirt support to our kali-vagrant build-script. In Kali The idea of this image is that it should work in "most" cloud providers This is coming from our kali-cloud build-scripts. So if you are self-hosting OpenStack, this is a great way of getting Kali loaded up! We have expanded the social networks which we post on, as well as refreshing the current ones. As a recap:. As a reminder, we don't use social networks for technical support - you can receive community support via discord or our forums and bug reports should go to the bug tracker! Instead, we automatically post blog posts thus these accounts are mostly unmonitored! In light of "Hacker Summer Camp " BlackHat USA, BSides LV, and DEFCON occurring right now, we wanted to push out Kali Linux With the publishing of this blog post, we have the download links ready for immediate access, or you can update any existing installation.

This is our new place for the Kali community to get together and chat in real-time all about Kali Linux as well as other community projects that OffSec has to offer. This is a community server, all with common interests. We do not have the goal to get as many users as possible, instead, we are growing a place for each other to help one another. We are focusing on quality not quantity. Please bear in mind, if you are looking for help, first search for your problem, ask questions, then wait for the community support from your peers. Remember no one is under obligation to help you, and you are more likely to get assistance if you are polite and show you have put some effort into solving your own issue.

Speaking of "real-time chatting", we are going to be starting a new tradition. We will be doing an hour long session after every Kali release where various Kali developers will come and voice chat on Discord, answer questions about Kali and its direction, take your input, and so on. We will be sure to add details about this in every blog post release going forwards. Feel free to be a fly on the wall, come by to say a hello, or ask questions! This is a great opportunity to ask questions, provide your input on what can help improve Kali, or get involved and contribute!

It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! A quick run down of what has been added to the network repositories :. This is true, even outside of Information Security field, you need to understand your tools to master your craft. You can read their code to understand how they work or a very detailed REAME at times , help screens and their manuals if they have one will give you a starting point on how to use them. But where do you use them especially when they are security tools? What output should the tool give? What is a successful run? How long does the tool take? What is its baseline? How can I get experience with it? All valid questions which need answers. To try and achieve these answers, most seasoned professionals will practice first hopefully in a known, controlled environment!

Theory is different to practical You may remember this the first time you were tasked of something new to accomplish. You can take the static theory-based output from help screens, READMEs, and manual pages and hands-on enter the data into programs and monitor the dynamic output and practical response. Its one thing to read something, its another to do it. The result often gives people a deeper understanding. Practice makes ~perfect~ permanent. So practice, practice, practice! Inquisitive minds can then start to experiment with new configurations, options, commands and flags. Then start to chain items together, or compare similar and alternative solutions, then compare the results, to become more educated and build up a benchmark of knowledge.

This grows experience. We have already provided Kali Linux images for VMware and VirtualBox since the start. For this release, there's been a few changes worth noting. We now distribute the VirtualBox image as a VDI disk and a. vbox metadata file, or to say it short: the native format for VirtualBox images. It should be a bit faster to download, as those images have a better compression ratio compared to the OVA images that we used to provide. It should also be a bit more straightforward to use it, you just need to unpack the image in your VirtualBox folder and run it. In case you need help, refer to our documentation: Import Pre-Made Kali VirtualBox VM. Additionally, we just started to provide weekly builds of our VM images.

These images are built from the kali-rolling branch, meaning that they have the most up-to-date packages, but on the other hand they don't receive as much testing as our quarterly releases. Last but not least, the scripts that we use to build those images are now available on GitLab. If you need to build custom Kali VM images, this is the place to go! Added Net Installer Mirror. With the Net Installer all packages are downloaded during the installation. The Net Installer ISO file is MB. It's that time of year again, time for another Kali Linux release!

Quarter 2 - Kali Linux This release has various impressive updates, all of which are ready for immediate download or updating. Like for every almost half-year, there is a new version bump for the GNOME desktop environment. Kali The shell theme now includes a more modern look, removing the arrows from the pop-up menus and using more rounded edges. In addition, we've upgraded and tweaked the dash-to-dock extension, making it integrate better with the new look and fixing some bugs. With GNOME 42, there is one new feature that is brighter than all of the others: the screenshot and screen-recording tool.

It's an enormous improvement in terms of user experience. This new Plasma release focuses on smoothing out wrinkles, evolving the design, and improving the overall feel and usability of the environment:. This modification also removes the CPU graph widget, not only due to the horizontal space it required, but also because it had a performance hit in low spec ARM devices. It has been some time since the last update of the kali menu. This time the icons for nmap, ffuf, and edb-debugger were improved and updated, and new ones were added for evil-winrm and bloodhound. Another improvement for the app dashboard is that the programs that include a user interface will now respect the custom icon provided by Kali. Previously, the icon in the app drawer showed the proper image, but once you launched it, the icon hardcoded to the program took preference, usually using a lower quality and pixelated image. This change will only affect KDE and GNOME desktops and, unfortunately, does not work on Xfce.

In case you need help, refer to our documentation: Import Pre-Made Kali VirtualBox VM. The KDE Plasma and XFCE environments have also received a polished look. SHAsum ec45b58ddbdf9dcf0e24df66dca62d. If you want to try Kali Linux without having to install it, the portable versions are the way to go. Digital Ocean Documentation. SHAsum afcf4ceb81bfb72bceceaafdbcc18ecadbfdb3. SHAsum 94df2efa51e7cfef83ab76edcade

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