The developers of the BlackArch Linux distribution recently announced the release of the new version of BlackArch 2019.06.01, which comes with the update of the applications as well with just over 150 new applications added to the system.
If you are still unaware of BlackArch Linux you should know that this is one of the most popular GNU / Linux distributions for ethical hacking, penetration testing and security research. The ever-expanding repository of distribution it currently has just over 2000 tools.
These tools are organized into numerous groups and categories Among which we can find: malware, wireless devices and disassemblers, adulterers, anti-forensics, debuggers, fuzzers, keyloggers, decompilers, backdoors, proxy, spoofing, sniffers, etc.
BlackArch Linux is released as a live ISO with multiple window managers including dwm, Fluxbox, Openbox, Awesome, wmii, i3 and Spectrwm. It has support for multiple architectures (x86_64, armv6h, armv7h and aarch64)
Likewise also features a 64-bit OVA image out of the box with Virtualbox, QEMU and VMware
Optionally, it is possible to install the distribution on a distro based on Arch Linux or on Arch Linux itself. This is possible by adding the BlackArch Linux repository to the system.
Since BlackArch is compatible with Arch Linux and derivative installations, it acts as an unofficial user repository available to install simply by running a small “strap.sh” script as root.
What's new in BlackArch Linux 2019.06.01?
In this new release of BlackArch Linux 2019.06.01 more than 150 new tools added, Besides that The BlackArch Linux image also accepted some necessary cleanups and tweaks in version 2019.06.01 and the developers noted that runtime checks were done on all packages before the ISO image was built.
With that the blackarch installer has been updated to version 1.1.1 just like the core of the system it has been updated to Linux kernel 5.1.4.
On the other hand added 'jedi-vim' plugin, vim plugin updated, as well as Xresources and Xdefaults and updating of all BlackArch tools and packages, including configuration files.
Full BlackArch ISO image is now over 11GB and is only available for USB or VirtualBox media, but the project also provides a CD-sized "netinst" image.
If you want to download and install this powerful operating system, now you can download BlackArch Linux 2019.06.01 from the link below.
The new ISO image is for new installations only.
For existing BlackArch Linux users they do not have to download new ISO images to keep the installation up to date, but rather make sure they have all the latest updates installed from the official repository.
How to install BlackArch on Arch Linux and derivatives?
As mentioned at the beginning, It is possible to install BlackArch on ready-made installations of Arch Linux and derivatives.
For those who are interested in being able to use this method, they should follow the instructions below.
The first thing we are going to do is download the BlackArch installer script, for this we are going to open a terminal and in it we are going to execute the following command:
curl -O https://blackarch.org/strap.sh
To verify that the download was successful, we can verify the SHA1 sum of this file which must match 73aae423a31410e021ef1b8f1becd573d2bd17dc
sha1sum strap.sh
Le we are going to give execution permissions with
chmod +x strap.sh
After that now we are going to run the following commands as root, for this we access the root user with:
sudo su
Y let's run strap.sh
./strap. sh
Done this now we can know the tools available to install with:
pacman -Sgg | grep blackarch | cut -d’ ’ -f2 | sort -u
To only show BlackArch categories, run:
pacman -Sg | grep blackarch
To install a category of tools, we just type:
pacman -S blackarch - <category>
Optionally we can install the BlackArch tool with:
pacman -S blackman
To install a tool:
blackman -i <package>
To install a category of tools:
blackman -g <group>
Finally to perform a complete installation:
blackman -a
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