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Mr Robot's series, perhaps one of the series that captured the hearts of many technologists and hackers, in the shadow of legendary dragons, Viking tales and drug sales series, has emerged from the series, which has been followed by many around the world, but only technicians, Geeks and hackers may have liked it, and they have particularly captured it, especially with Elliot's character played by actor "Rami Malek", along with many other actors in the series.
I'll be honest with you and excuse me for presenting my personal opinion in this article, but I'm not a fan of mr robot series even though I've seen all its parts now, but let's be honest, the story is not that plot, I can tell you that the best thing in the whole series is the great hack scenes, especially since the Mr Robot series has followed the same approach as the series of The Matrix movies and decided to rely on real tools and ways of hacking instead of fake methods and programs as in many movies on "I didn't like the story very much at all, we know it highlights monopolistic policies and control of the world, but not to the point of relying on an introverted morphine-loving and introverted young man to help a group of people dismantle this control, but it's the plot of the film and its story, and we just have to work with it."
In general, our goal of this article is not to address the story in its first place, but to increase the magnificence of the hack scenes that appeared in the Mr Robot series in all its parts, and provide you with the most important software, systems and tools and everything that Elliot and his friends and even his enemies used in the series in this article, with a small description of each tool separately, are you ready, Mr Robot lover, to learn more and more about the tools used in this article? The chain?
Kali Linux
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First of all, Kali Linux is one of the most powerful and famous hack systems, featuring hundreds of hack tools and the strongest, with many copies in the past called BackTrack before Offensive Security changed the name in 2014 to Kali Linux and launched a range of its own versions, in each version part of the system is improved to become one of the strongest and most famous hack systems ever.
The system was used by almost all of the series' characters in a series of hack scenes led by Mr Robot's hero Elliot, and a range of tools were used within the system as well.
DeepSound
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It is a tool that provides you with the ability to save files and data in the form of music clips, even if you are snooping on and on your data, all the intruder can find is a collection of music sections no more, but behind those sections, there are sensitive files of your own that have been hidden in a smart way, you can not see the files behind those sections except using the deepSound tool.
Elliott used the tool in the first part of episode eight to hide a set of files in a floppy disk, and then place the floppy disk into a set of other music discs as well as a kind of camouflage.
HDShreder
This tool allows you to delete the hard drive from his father's reel and delete everything inside it so that no hard drive data can be retrieved at all, available in a range of Linux systems, we also recommend that you delete all data and information in a particular hard drive without the possibility of retrieving it.
This tool was used in the first part of Episode 10 in order to delete all information and data after the evil Corp hack and delete all traces of the Fsociety hack.
Btscanner
A breakthrough tool is also available in Kali Linux if you want to see them, these tools allow you to collect as much information about a particular device through Bluetooth without having to communicate with the other device, it is enough that Bluetooth is activated in the device, almost all kinds of information about the device (computer, phone ...) can be collected through Bluetooth only and this tool can inevitably achieve this.
This tool was used alongside Both Metasploit and Bluesniff by Elliot in episode six of the first part of the series in order to collect a set of information from a police computer in a car.
Metasploit
Speaking of Metasploit, it may be noted that it is one of the most used tools in the Mr Robot series, and one of the most used tools by hackers globally and is considered one of the strongest hack tools as well, Metasploit is a large and huge project featuring a huge range of powerful and effective hack tools as well and its use is vast and global, present in several systems such as Calle Linux and his friends, and there is a copy of it on Windows as well I think.
The Metasploit was used in many episodes and used many tools inside it (which we will address in this article) and as an example the previous tool in the first part and episode six of the series where the metaspluit was also used to hack into the computer of the policeman's car.
FlexiSPY
A professional spy tool that supports a range of mobile systems such as Android, iOS and others, also supports BlackBerry devices, which allows you after installing it in the victim's phone, to see and monitor all the events that the victim reaches in his phone whatever.
In Mr Robot's third episode of the first part, Tyrell Wellick installed it on his friend's phone, which he visited at home, on his BlackBerry phone to see, spy on and find out about evil Corp's new chief technical officer.
Tor
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You can clearly notice that most characters, especially members of the fSociety team, use Tor browser, a specialized browser that encrypts your connection on many layers, and allows you to access onion sites, which are often highly encrypted and protected, practically we find many people using tor browser to access the hidden world of Deep Web, and can be used as a type of VPN in order to open blocked sites in your country or cover your connection In any location without tracking or spying by any outside companies.
Wickr
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A dedicated Chat app protected by end to End Encryption, available on almost all platforms from Windows, Linux, Mac and even mobile, this tool allows you to freely chat away from any kind of spying, this tool was used in the second part to communicate between fosciety team members.
Social Engineer Toolkit
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A tool within the aforementioned Metasploit project, this tool allows you to perform many social engineering processes in a unique way from creating forged pages, perhaps or creating fake accounts and others in order to deceive the victim and drop him into your trap, simply considering this package of packages specialized in penetrating behavior and the human mind more than hacking the victim's device.
In the first part of episode five, Elliott used se Toolkit to send a specific SMS to steel Montain's administrator in the series.
Other tools used in the series
Mr Robot series is really great when it comes to hack scenes and tools used, they show them for what they are and many software has been used in the series, we reviewed most of them but there are other software such as:
Proton Mail Wget OpenWrt MimiKatz Kingo Root Can Utils PuTTY FFmpeg Slackware FramaRoot KVM John The Ripper Pwnix FileZilla Respberry PI FireFox / VLC Media Pycharm Radare You can search for every software you want, investigate it more and use it yourself if you want. Best regards, ✍
M'ssieu Abdo
I've always been facinated by hacking since I was a kid. Been studying it since the pandemic. Some courses on Youtube and on hackthebox.com.
Thanks alot for this.
Im thoroughly enjoying watching Mr. Robot currently.