Facilitates Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks to intercept traffic.
Uses dictionary, brute-force, and cryptanalysis attacks (via rainbow tables) to recover lost passwords.
Are you looking to use these tools for or for recovering a specific password ?
Because Cain & Abel is aging and lacks a macOS port, most professionals use native tools that offer similar or more powerful capabilities:
Cain & Abel is widely recognized in the cybersecurity community as a powerful "Swiss Army knife" for password recovery and network auditing. However, if you are looking for a native , you will find that a direct version does not exist. The tool is strictly developed for Microsoft Windows .
Captures credentials transmitted over unencrypted protocols like HTTP and FTP.