Recon-ng – a framework for information gathering

OSINT collection is a time-consuming, manual process. Information related to the target organization may be spread across several public resources, and accumulating and extracting the information that is relevant to the target is a difficult and time-consuming task. IT budgets of most organizations do not permit spending much time on such activities.

Recon-ng is the tool that penetration testers always needed. It's an information-gathering tool on steroids. Recon-ng is a very interactive tool, similar to the Metasploit framework. This framework uses many different sources to gather data, for example, on Google, Twitter, and Shodan. Some modules require an API key before querying the website. ...

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