What’s New in Kali Linux 2022.3?

Things to know about the latest Kali release.

1. New Tools

Here are all the new tools that come with the release.

• BruteShark – Network Analysis Tool
• DefectDojo – Open-source application vulnerability correlation and security orchestration tool
• phpsploit – Stealth post-exploitation framework
• shellfire – Exploiting LFI/RFI and command injection vulnerabilities
• SprayingToolkit – Password spraying attacks against Lync/S4B, OWA, and O365

Kali Documentation Updates

There has been a number of new pages added to our kali-docs sub section, as well as numerous updates to existing pages, keeping them up-to-date as well as adding more details. A summary of the new pages added:

• Radxa Zero (eMMC)
• Radxa Zero (sdcard)
• Raspberry Pi Zero W P4wnP1 A.L.O.A (A Little Offensive Application)
• Linode
• Using Kali Linux Podman Images
• Bare-bones Kali
• Discovering Problems With Download Speed
• No sound on Kali 2022.2
• USB Boot in VirtualBox
• Import Pre-Made Kali VirtualBox VM
• Import Pre-Made Kali VMware VM
• Improving Virtual Machine Performance for VMware
• Kali inside Hyper-V (Guest VM)
• Kali inside QEMU/LibVirt with virt-manager (Guest VM)
• Kali inside UTM (Guest VM)
• Kali inside Vagrant (Guest VM)
• Installing VMware on Apple Silicon (M1/M2) Macs (Host)

Get Kali Linux 2022.3

$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade

$ cp -rbi /etc/skel/. ~

$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f


grep VERSION /etc/os-release VERSION="2022.3" VERSION_ID="2022.3" VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"

You should now be on Kali Linux 2022.3 We can do a quick check by doing:

$ uname -v

#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.18.5-1kali6 (2022-07-07)

$ uname -r

5.18.0-kali5-amd64

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