Kali Linux 2022.4 – New Release adds 6 new tools, Kali NetHunter Update, Azure

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Offensive Security has released the final version of Kali Linux for 2022, Kali Linux 2022.4.

A summary of the changelog since August’s 2022.3 release:

• Microsoft Azure – We are back on the Microsoft Azure store
• More Platforms – Generic Cloud, QEMU VM image, & Vagrant libvirt
• Social Networks – New homes, keeping in touch, & press packs
• Kali NetHunter Pro – Announcing the first release of a “true” Kali Linux on the mobile phone (PinePhone / Pro)
• Kali NetHunter – Internal Bluetooth support, kernel porting video, firmware updates, & other improvements
• Desktop Updates – GNOME 43 & KDE 5.26
• New Tools – As always, various new tools added

Microsoft Azure

Its been a long time coming, but they are very happy to announce that Kali has been added to Microsoft Azure (again – and this time to stay)! Following in the foot steps of our Amazon AWS image, they are using the same kali-cloud build-scripts now to automate publishing to Microsoft Azure store.

Out of the box, currently, there is no graphical user interface, or any tools pre-installed. Should you want the default toolset (kali-linux-default) or any other combination of metapackages, it should be like any other Kali platform. For installing a desktop environment, they have the following kali-docs page: Setting up RDP with Xfce

They hope in 2023 they can revisit this again and are looking at doing ARM64 architecture, as well as different variations of images, allowing you to choose from a mixture of headless bare-bones install, the traditional environment, and a mixture of everything in-between.

Kali NetHunter Pro Release

They are very excited to announce the official support of the Pine64 PinePhone and PinePhone Pro thanks to the amazing work of Shubham Vishwakarma and the vibrant community.

The launch of Kali NetHunter Pro is the beginning of a new chapter for Kali Linux and NetHunter, a bare metal installation of Kali Linux with Phosh desktop environment, optimized for mobile devices.

First of all they make available SD card images for the PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro to dual boot alongside the main OS. Soon they will release alternative versions with Plasma Mobile as well as installers so you can install Kali NetHunter Pro onto the internal flash memory.

For all those that have a PinePhone or a PinePhone Pro, hop over to our download page and join the brave new world of mobile hacking. For those that don’t have a PinePhone yet: What are you waiting for? Get one 🙂

Please help us with the development by testing the images, submitting bugs and improvements in our GitLab repository, and become a part of the vibrant Kali NetHunter community.

Kali NetHunter Update

Internal Bluetooth support has finally arrived, thanks to @yesimxev and the awesome community! They have added support to some devices already, however as each kernel needs new Bluetooth drivers enabled, it takes time to rebuild each of them. You are more than welcome to contribute if your device is Kali NetHunter supported already without the new drivers.

@yesimxev has released the ultimate Kali NetHunter Complete Kernel Porting Guide on YouTube. Have you ever dreamt of porting Kali NetHunter to your device but didn’t know where to start? This video has it all so get cracking.

New Tools in Kali

It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! A quick run down of what has been added (to the network repositories):

• bloodhound.py – A Python based ingestor for BloodHound
• certipy – Tool for Active Directory Certificate Services enumeration and abuse
• hak5-wifi-coconut – A user-space driver for USB Wi-Fi NICs and the Hak5 Wi-Fi Coconut
• ldapdomaindump – Active Directory information dumper via LDAP
• peass-ng – Privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix* and MacOS.
• rizin-cutter – reverse engineering platform powered by rizin

This is new tools, there are numerous updates to existing tools.

KDE Plasma

Kali now includes the new version 5.26 of KDE, which improves the overall desktop experience, and brings tweaks for multiple widgets. You can learn more about the latest changes in the Plasma 5.26 release announcement publication.

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Source: www.kali.org

See the full release details by Offensive Security here.