bettercap mit Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• bettercap

Projektgeschichte

The current public repository was created in January 2018 and hosts the Go implementation, documentation links, caplets, modules, tests, and release automation for bettercap 2.x. The project replaced the older single-purpose idea of a LAN MITM helper with a modular framework covering wireless and wired network attack surfaces.

Official release tags show the 2.x line continuing through regular maintenance and feature releases, including v2.40.0 in September 2024, v2.41.0 in January 2025, and v2.41.7 in May 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

bettercap became a common package-manager install for offensive-security labs because it combines sniffing, spoofing, Wi-Fi handshakes, BLE enumeration, packet/protocol proxies, and a REST/web UI under one executable. Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine, Nix, MacPorts, and openSUSE packaging in the input reflects that cross-platform adoption.

The GitHub repository's large star and fork counts, Docker image badge, and active release stream indicate that bettercap is used beyond macOS packaging: it is a standard tool people expect to be available in disposable lab machines, containers, and security-focused Unix environments.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users typically run bettercap interactively or with caplets to discover hosts, inspect traffic, run spoofers, capture Wi-Fi handshakes, enumerate BLE devices, or script network experiments. Its official docs emphasize an interactive session workflow and module-driven operation rather than a single fire-and-forget scan command.

Because the tool performs real attack and monitoring functions, its practical use belongs in authorized security testing, lab networks, red-team exercises, and research settings.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bettercap is package-nerd interesting because it is one of the few security CLI packages that collapses many historically separate tools into one Go binary with modules, a web UI, REST API, caplets, and packaged defaults. It sits at the intersection of classic Unix networking tools, wireless security suites, and modern self-contained Go distribution.

For Homebrew-style package history, bettercap also illustrates how offensive-security tooling moved from language/runtime-heavy installs toward portable binaries that can be installed quickly on a laptop, container, or lab host and then extended with scripts and modules.

Zeitleiste

• 2018: Current bettercap/bettercap GitHub repository created for the Go-based 2.x project.
• 2024: v2.40.0 released, showing the mature 2.x line still receiving updates.
• 2025: v2.41.0 released.
• 2026: v2.41.7 published in May, with repository activity continuing in June.

Related projects

• Related tools include Wireshark and tcpdump for packet inspection, aircrack-ng for Wi-Fi security workflows, mitmproxy for programmable proxying, nmap for network discovery, and ettercap as an older MITM-oriented tool whose niche bettercap partly modernized.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/bettercap/bettercap
• https://api.github.com/repos/bettercap/bettercap/releases
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bettercap/bettercap/master/README.md
• source_facts.package-manager