A Dictionary Attack as an attack vector used by the attacker to break in a system, which is password protected, by putting technically every word in a dictionary as a form of password for that system. This attack vector is a form of Brute force attack
The dictionary can contain words from an English dictionary and also some leaked list of commonly used passwords and when combined with common character replacing with numbers, can sometimes be very effective and fast.
How is it done?
Basically, it is trying every single word that is already prepared. It is done using automated tools that try all the possible words in the dictionary.
softwares used for cracking the password :
- John the Ripper
- L0phtCrack
- Aircrack-ng
