macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install bettercaplocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install bettercapMacPorts ports tree · net/bettercap/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Installer bettercap avec Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de bettercap pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add bettercapAlpine Linux edge package indexes · bettercap · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install bettercapDebian stable package indexes · bettercap · Source: deb.debian.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#bettercapnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/be/bettercap/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S bettercapArch Linux sync databases · bettercap · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install bettercapopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · bettercap · Source: download.opensuse.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Swiss army knife for network attacks and monitoring
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- bettercap
historique
Historique du projet et usages
bettercap is a Go-based network reconnaissance and attack framework packaged as a command-line tool for security researchers, red teamers, and reverse engineers. Its official description frames it as an all-in-one toolkit for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4, and IPv6 reconnaissance and MITM work.
Historique du projet
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.
Historique d'adoption
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.
Modes d'utilisation
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.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
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.
Chronologie
- 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.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : red
network interception and offensive security tool.
Classificateur de risque
risque red · confiance élevé · escape-surveillance-offensive
Pourquoi
- network interception and offensive security tool
Signaux
- override:bettercap
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 1 dépendances d’exécution.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 2 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/bettercap.env
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
bettercap | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire2.41.7
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-15
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev2.41.7
https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap
- OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:bettercap |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.41.7 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bettercap |
| Page d'accueil | https://www.bettercap.org/ |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap |
| Docs amont | https://www.bettercap.org/ |
| Licence | GPL-3.0-only |
| Archive source | https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap/archive/refs/tags/v2.41.7.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-15T21:02:52-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances | libusb |
| Dépendances de compilation | go, pkgconf |
| Bibliothèques fournies par macOS | libpcap |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
| Précautions | bettercap requires root privileges so you will need to run `sudo bettercap`. You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges. |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | bettercap |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
Debian apt95%
bettercap 2.33.0-1+b9
Complete, modular, portable and easily extensible MITM framework
sudo apt install bettercap- Section: net
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: bettercap
- 8 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
Nix95%
bettercap
nix profile install nixpkgs#bettercap- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
Ubuntu apt95%
bettercap 2.32.0-2build3
Complete, modular, portable and easily extensible MITM framework
sudo apt install bettercap- Section: universe/net
- Architecture: amd64
- 8 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
apk95%
bettercap 2.41.7-r0
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
sudo apk add bettercap- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: bettercap
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
apk95%
bettercap-doc 2.41.7-r0
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks. (documentation)
sudo apk add bettercap-doc- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: bettercap
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
pacman95%
bettercap 2.41.7-1
Swiss army knife for network attacks and monitoring
https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap
sudo pacman -S bettercap- License: GPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- 8 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
zypper95%
bettercap 2.41.7-1.1
Swiss army knife for network attacks and monitoring
sudo zypper install bettercap- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Category: Productivity/Networking/Diagnostic
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: bettercap
- 3 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
MacPorts95%
bettercap
sudo port install bettercap- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Bettercap
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment