What is Bettercap?

What is Bettercap?

Bettercap is a powerful tool used by cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers. It helps you monitor and attack networks in a legal and ethical way for learning or testing purposes.

Bettercap can be used to:

• Monitor live traffic on a network

• Capture passwords and login details

• Spoof DNS or IP addresses

• Perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks

• Discover nearby Bluetooth or WiFi devices

• Sniff data from users on the same network

Bettercap is an advanced tool and should only be used on your own network or with permission. Hacking someone’s network without permission is illegal.

The official Bettercap GitHub page is:
https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap

How to Install Bettercap

For Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Parrot OS, etc.)

Step 1: Update your system
Open your terminal and type:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Install Go (programming language used to build Bettercap)
sudo apt install golang-go

Step 3: Install Bettercap using Go
go install github.com/bettercap/bettercap@latest

Step 4: Move Bettercap to your system path (optional)
sudo mv ~/go/bin/bettercap /usr/local/bin/

Step 5: Run Bettercap
Type the command:
sudo bettercap

For Kali Linux

Bettercap comes pre-installed on most versions of Kali Linux.
To check, just open the terminal and run:
sudo bettercap

If it is not installed, run:
sudo apt install bettercap

Then run:
sudo bettercap

For Windows

Step 1: Go to this website to download Bettercap:
https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap/releases

Step 2: Download the .exe file for Windows

Step 3: Open Command Prompt and run Bettercap by typing:
bettercap.exe

Note: Bettercap works best on Linux. Some features may not work properly on Windows.

For macOS

Step 1: Install Homebrew if you don’t already have it.
Visit https://brew.sh to get instructions.

Step 2: Install Bettercap using Homebrew
brew install bettercap

Step 3: Run Bettercap
sudo bettercap

Final Note

Bettercap is a powerful network security tool. It can help you understand how networks work and how attackers can gain access to sensitive data. Always use Bettercap responsibly, legally, and for educational purposes only.

Let me know if you want a second part of this post showing how to use Bettercap for sniffing, DNS spoofing, or WiFi attacks.