Censys is a search engine for devices connected to the internet. Censys was created in 2015 at the University of Michigan by the security researchers who developed ZMap.
Censys continuously scans and logs devices on the internet:
- Metasploit also has a built-in auxiliary that allows us to do a Censys scan. We can use the censys keyword in the module search to locate the script:
- Clicking on the module will take us to the options page, but before we do that, we need to log in to our account on censys.io and get API ID and Secret, which will be used in the module:
- We enter API ID and Secret in the module options and specify the domain ...
