SSH vs Ligolo-ng

In this section, I will compare the benefits Ligolo-ng has over SSH for lateral movement/pivoting within a network.

Benefits of Ligolo-ng over SSH

  1. Supports a wide range of protocols (eg. TCP, UDP, etc.) as opposed to SSH tunnels, which only supports TCP

  2. Provides a clean intuitive command-line interface

  3. Utilizes a TUN interface, instead of SOCKS proxies

  • benefits of TUN over SOCKS?....

  1. Does not require proxy configurations on the client side

  • SSH requires proxy configurations via proxychains, etc. in order to route traffic through the SOCKS proxy

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