During an internal assessment you are connected to a managed switch that prevents traffic flooding. You need a single tool that can poison ARP tables, place your laptop as a man-in-the-middle, and simultaneously capture and filter credentials in real time. Which utility would best accomplish this task?
Ettercap is specifically designed for man-in-the-middle operations on a switched LAN. It can launch active ARP poisoning to intercept traffic and includes filtering and plugin support to watch or modify credentials on the fly. Wireshark and tcpdump are excellent packet analyzers but provide no built-in facility for ARP spoofing. Nmap focuses on host and service discovery; while it has a scripting engine, it is not a dedicated sniffing platform for live MITM interception.
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