During a penetration testing engagement, you are tasked with testing the strength of passwords on a target network. You opt to use a popular credential testing tool to perform a brute force attack on SSH services. Which of the following tools would you use to achieve this, providing an efficient and reliable method to uncover weak credentials?
Hydra is well-known for its ability to perform rapid dictionary or brute force attacks on network services, including SSH, making it a popular tool among penetration testers for credential testing. It supports various protocols and is capable of performing fast and efficient attacks to discover weak passwords. Meanwhile, Hashcat is predominantly used for cracking hashed passwords rather than directly attacking network services. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer and is not designed for credential testing. Lastly, Mimikatz is primarily used for extracting credentials from Windows operating systems, not brute force attacks on network services.
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