Aircrack-Ng

Aircrack-Ng Aircrack-Ng is a WiFi security testing app for cybersecurity pros. Capture packets, export text data for analysis, and use built-in tools for monitoring, injection, and vulnerability checks.

Aircrack-Ng

Aircrack is a WiFi security testing utility built for cybersecurity professionals. It lets you capture wireless data packets, then produce detailed analysis reports. With those results, you can better understand where a network may be weak and plan more effective remediation.

The app also includes a full set of network protection tools. After testing identifies specific vulnerabilities, the software supports targeted fixes to help safeguard both the network and connected devices. The project is continuously maintained as well—new professional tools for vulnerability testing and remediation are added over time to support ongoing device and network optimization.

Key Features

Network Monitoring

With the Aircrack app, monitoring your WiFi becomes simpler. The tool captures WiFi packets and helps you review them by exporting the captured data into text files. You can then import or analyze those exported packets using third-party applications for deeper investigation.

WiFi Attacks

If you’re a security expert and need to validate network weaknesses, you may perform penetration-style assessments. AirCrack-Ng supports a range of common testing actions—such as packet capture/stealing, packet injection, de-authentication, and fake access point scenarios—provided you already understand the required technical steps.

Multiple Tools in One App

AirCrack-Ng includes several built-in mini-tools, including Aircrack-ng, Aireplay, Airodump, and wesside-ng, among others. Each tool supports a different part of the workflow:

• Airodump helps you save captured packets into a text file.
• Aireplay acts as a packet injector, allowing you to send packets for security testing.

Use the tools together and iterate on your testing to get strong results when validating WiFi security.

External Device Support

During WiFi testing, you might want better performance by connecting additional hardware. AirCrack-Ng supports multiple external devices such as routers, network boards, antennas, and other related equipment. This can improve coverage, help you collect data faster, and make processing the results more convenient.

Changelog Highlights

• Airmon-ng: Fix avahi killing
• Airmon-ng: Rewrite service stopping behavior entirely
• Airmon-ng: Code style fixes and general cleanup
• Airmon-ng: Added Raspberry Pi hardware revisions
• Airmon-ng: Fixes for the 8812au driver
• Airmon-ng: Fix iwlwifi firmware formatting
• Airmon-ng: Remove broken KVM detection
• Airmon-ng: Show regdomain in verbose mode
• Airmon-ng: Document frequency usage
• Airmon-ng: Add sleep to help avoid predictable-name issues when udev renames interfaces
• Airmon-ng: Warning added for broken radiotap headers in kernel 5.15 to 5.15.4
• Airmon-ng: Shellcheck fixes
• Airmon-ng: Support systemctl for systems that no longer use the “service” command
• Airmon-ng: Compatibility fixes for pciutils 3.8
• Airbase-ng: Use enum for frame type/subtype
• Airbase-ng: Remove a few IE fields in association responses
• Besside-ng: Support and detect all 5GHz channels in Auto-Channel mode



• OSdep: Search additional IE for channel information
• OSdep: Android macro fixes
• Patches: Add missing patches from https://patches.aircrack-ng.org that weren’t included in the repo
• Patches: Updated freeradius-wpe patch for v3.2.0
• Patches: Updated hostapd-wpe patch for v2.10
• Patches: Added Docker containers to test WPE patches
• Autotools: “make dist” now creates a VERSION file
• Autotools: Added maintainer mode
• Autotools: Initial support for Link Time Optimization (LTO) builds
• Integration tests: Added a new test and improved several existing ones
• Airgraph-ng: Switch airodump-join to Python 3
• Manpages: Fixes (typos, tool naming, etc.) and improvements
• README: Updated dependency instructions across different distros
• README: Fixed typos and spelling in README.md and INSTALLING
• Packages: PackageCloud packages now support any distro using .deb and .rpm, but require reinstalling the repo (breaking change)
• General: Fix compilation with LibreSSL 3.5



• General: Address issues reported by Infer
• General: Updated buildbots
• General: Add Linux uclibc support
• General: macOS compilation fixes for Apple M1
• General: Removed TravisCI and AppVeyor
• General: Moved CI to GitHub Actions (Linux, Windows, macOS, code style, and PVS-Studio)
• General: Added vscode devcontainer and documentation
• General: Fix warnings from PVS-Studio; build with pedantic (see PR2174)



• General: Shell script fixes thanks to shellcheck
• General: Fixes for GCC 10 and 11
• General: Fixed cross-compilation



• General: Code refactoring, deduplication, cleanup, and other improvements
• General: Coverity Scan fixes (memory leaks, race conditions, division by 0, and more)
• General: PVS Studio improvements, fixes, and updates



• General: Code formatting/style fixes
• General: Various fixes and improvements (code, CI, integration tests, Coverity)
• General: Update bug reporting template