Man in the Middle Attack

The man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.

TOOLS USED:

• dsniff - A tool for SSH and SSL MITM attacks
  
• Cain - A Windows GUI tool which can perform MITM attacks, along with sniffing and ARP Poisoning
  
• Ettercap - A tool for LAN based MITM attacks
  
• Karma - A tool that uses 802.11 Evil Twin attacks to perform MITM attacks
  
• AirJack - A tool that demonstrates 802.11 based MITM attacks
  
• wsniff - A tool for 802.11 HTTP/HTTPS based MITM attacks