In this tutorial I will teach how to carry out a successful Mitm attack
Concept :-
We Know that HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol )simply sends all the informationthrough plain text .So if we make the victim use HTTP instead of HTTPS to connect sites like
Read More: What is SSL(Secure Socket Layer)
Thing we Need
1. SSL strip: You can search Google for SSL strip it comes both in windows and Linux versions . I will be using the windows version in this tutorial
2. Ettercap to carry out mitm attacks
Demonstration :-
1. Open SSL strip and fill in all the required information for arpsoof, network ,ssl strip, change data .If you don’t know what to enter simply click
2. Now select the victim’s IP and click open
3. Now open ettercap go to
4. Now select hosts-scan hosts .Once scanning is completed .Open host list from hosts tab .Now select the IP address of the router as target 1 and the victims IP as target 2
5. Now select mitm-arp poisoning and click ok as shown
6. Finally select start-start sniffing .Now when the victim logs into gmail he will be using HTTPand not HTTPS Hence we are able to get the User id ,passwords as shown below
Counter measures:
1. whenever you perform an online
2. Always check the SSL certificate before doing an online transaction
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