Red Team Toolkit: Essential Tools and Techniques for Offensive Security Operations
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Summary
This article details some of the tools that red teams use to carry out their ethical hacking and penetrate systems to test their strengths.
It emphasizes that while red teaming is a more advanced form of cybersecurity assessment compared to penetration testing, it requires a variety of tools that cover different stages of the attack lifecycle.
These are divided into categories according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which stages are recon, privilege escalation, defense evasion, etc.
Among the listed examples of tools for the recon phase are RustScan, NmapAutomator, and AutoRecon, among many others.
The document repeats the admonition that this document is for educational purposes only, and that illegal exploits are punishable by law, concluding with the assertion that ethical hacking is best.