Kali Linux 2023.3 Release (Internal Infrastructure & Kali Autopilot)

Today we are delighted to introduce our latest release of Kali, 2023.3. This release blog post does not have the most features in it, as a lot of the changes have been behind-the-scenes, which brings a huge benefit to us and an indirect positive effect to you as end-users. It always goes without saying, but there are a number of new packages and tools as well as the standard updates. If you want to see what’s new for yourself .

The highlights of the :

• - The automation attack framework has had an major overhaul


• - kali-experimental and ! This is to help mirror admins for our community mirrors. This now gives everyone using it more details and insight which is useful when troubleshooting and debugging issues.
  
  

  True to our word, we are doing more in the open, the git repository can be found here: publicly, which is our helping aid to manage all our packages in Kali.
  Recently we have expanded on them by giving the existing files a refresh by adding additional features and various quality-of-life improvements, as well as including new ones.

  
  

  As a recap, if you want to have a peek at some back-end development:

  
  
  
  
  • (, such as “debian-testing”, “kali-rolling”, and “kali-last-snapshot” to name a few).
  
  
  • as well as - This is our automated packager as it will apply everything from minor formatting changes to preparing an package update.
    
    
    
    • The long term goal of this is to have it handle kali-bleeding-edge, linking into AutoPkgTest.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • ( ( in . Since then, its been worked on and is unrecognizable with its redesigned GUI and multitudinous amount of features added.
    
    

    What is Kali Autopilot? We are glad you asked!
    Kali Autopilot is an automated attack framework. It is a bit like an “AutoPwner”, which follows pre-defined “attack scenarios”.
    The motivation originally started its development for the defensive side of Kali.

    
    

    It is a lot easier to demonstrate Kali’s offensive side, especially when you start seeing the shells popping up.
    But when it comes to the defensive side, how do you know if you have set things up? You start to ask questions:

    
    
    
    
    • Are the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and the Web Application Firewall (WAF) detecting malicious activities?
    
    
    • Is the Security information and event management (SIEM) ingesting the right logs?
    
    
    • Are the dashboards and alerts tuned to detect attacks?
    
    
    • Are the analysts trained in finding the needle in the haystack?
    
    
    • Has it been tested? How can you test?
    
    
    
    

    Either you can wait for someone to try and break in, or you could do it yourself. This is where Kali Autopilot comes in.

    
    

    
    . We currently have scripts for . Just download the JSON from the hub and import it into Kali Autopilot.

    
    

    This tool has come along a lot in the last 6 months, and no plans on slowing down. As always, its shaped by the .

    
    

    New Tools in Kali

    
    

    We will kick it off with what’s new (to the network repositories):

    
    
    
    
    • - CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface
    
    
    • - A Hex Editor for reverse engineers, programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM
    
    
    • - Automation platform that combines different hacking tools to complete pentesting processes
    
    
    • - Extract files from any kind of container formats
    
    
    • , , , , and many many more.
      
      

      Unfortunately - The tool is no longer maintained by the original author
      

      
      
      • As an alternative, check - Tool does not work with Python 3.11, and no response from original author
        
        
        
        • For an replacement, try and a process of how tools are packaged up and added (from network repositories to the default installed toolset). The draw back is that we do not have enough human power to be able to process them all.
          Our solution to this has been to help tool authors and/or anyone from the
        
        
        
        
        
        
        • & - “Hello World” with a Docker container
        
        
        
        

        When the tool was originally submitted by the tool author, we reviewed it, liked it, and agreed it should be in Kali. We did not have the cycles to process it ourselves quick enough, but the tool author did. They step up, and then re-submitted it again with them packaging up their tool.
        This saved us a lot of leg work, so reviewing the package became a breeze, and shortly after was added into Kali.

        
        

        If you are wanting a tool added into Kali - and you would like for it to happen sooner than we can do, have a go at trying to package yourself!
        There are other sources of doing “Debian packaging” out there, as well as our linked guides above. There is a initial learning curve, but its not as complex as you may think (especially if you are comfortable using Linux).

        
        

        Please note, we compile packages from

      
      
      
      

      Kali NetHunter Updates

      
      

      We are proud to introduce a redesigned Kali NetHunter app and a completely new NetHunter Terminal, thanks to the amazing work of our very own .

      
      

      On the
      

      
      
      

      Also worth mentioning:

      
      
      
      
      • By popular demand we have added a SELinux disabler.
      
      
      • Please note until we are able to replace Mana Toolkit, we have had to temporary downgrade iptables.
      
      
      
      

      Kali ARM Updates

      
      

      The .
      This change is in line with what we did with the and have had some minor tweaks to deal with has had various updates to existing pages as well as new pages:

      
      
      
      
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      • - Should be a little easier to scroll and move about the page now, switching between platforms
      
      
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        • - who helped with - who helped with - who helped with - who helped with - who helped with - helping with the Raspberry Pi release testing.
        
        
        
        

        Anyone can help out, anyone can get and , thanks to Vahe Avagyan.

      
      
      
      

      If you have the disk space and bandwidth, with .

      
      

      Please note we will not be recording this session. This is a live event only.

      
      

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      Get Kali Linux 2023.3

      
      

      Fresh Images:
      Simple, that you can use as well.
      These are for people who cannot wait for our next release and you want the latest packages (or bug fixes). This way you will have fewer updates to do.
      Just know that these are automated builds that we do not QA like we do our standard about those images because we want any issues to be fixed before our next release!

      
      

      Existing Installs:
      If you already have an existing Kali Linux installation, remember you can always do a quick .

      
      

      As always, should you come across any bugs in Kali, please submit a report on our and to help you.

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