Basic overview of Wireshark and how to use it in MITM attacks

Wireshark is already pre-installed on your Kali Linux operating system. To get started, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Applications | 09 – Sniffing & Spoofing | wireshark.
  1. Once Wireshark is open, you'll be presented with the user interface as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Wireshark will provide a list of all network interfaces and display a live summary graph of live network traffic passing through each network adapter. Double-clicking an interface will immediately start a live capture on the network interface card.

Enabling a capture on your local system will ...

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