I have been using this for my internal ethical hacking tasks to brute force telnet access to Cisco network devices (routers, switches etc) with great success. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Hey Dekota Coppler, your link to the site you gave has expired, there's no download there mate. Suggest changing the link in the main article as Hydra has moved to a GitHub server. Hydra is dead? Why latest release 8.1 Dec. Try installing xhydra on you Linux from the software center its easier to use and works! I use THC-Hydra on my Raspberry Pi 3 with a copy of Kali Linux and its great easy and worth it!
I have used Cygwin to install Hydra 8 on my Windows 7 OS, however, when using the "./xhydra" command, I receive this error: "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display". Mine shows an error maximum allowed password 50000000 If you don't understand what it says, then. I recommend that you read the README file included. service and instantly crack the password, unless you give it limitations (I'm assuming, because I use aircrack-ng with crunch), so it knows where to look. You can't just expect it to plug into an auth. keep in mind that THC Hydra brute forces using a dictionary attack, meaning that a file with a bank of common passphrases is run through by the program, to crack an authentication service. I notice that some people on this comment page are just asking to access an email account or a game account. If you want to use Hydra I would just recommend getting an iso of Kali linux just go to and download the iso file and burn it i'm pretty sure people are gonna get mad at this comment this is just a suggestion. Using my PC i can get anywhere between 75 -150 per minute. Heya, Anyone know how Hydra determines attack speed? PS : Hydra was not meant to easily crack any password in the world, it's more like a tool to test your network security. I'm currently trying to recover the user and psw of my router and I need more information about the command possibilities. Thanks Harvey for the new link of Hydra website will dig that. Hydra can not log in correctly on Google or Yahoo, even with proxy list ,
Great tool, but the password generator is so weak. I just find it annoying that the restore doesn't take into consideration the number of passwords already tested so that the speed is just a messy guess.