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CTOnews.com June 5, Offensive Security announced the release of Kali Linux 2023.2, a new version of the GNU / Linux distribution, with new features, updates and tools, as well as many improvements.

Kali Linux 2023.2 was released within two and a half months of the 10th anniversary release of Kali Linux 2023.1, which introduced support for Kali Linux's flagship PipeWire multimedia backend, which has a lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

PipeWire replaces PulseAudio in the Xfce version to provide a better audio experience. Existing Kali Linux installations use the sudo apt update & & sudo apt full-upgrade command to perform a full update, and they will also be supported by PipeWire.

The Xfce version of Kali Linux also adds the extension GtkHash to the Thunar file manager to support quick calculation of the checksum of files. On the other hand, GNOME products have been updated to the latest GNOME 44 version and new Tiling Assistant extensions have been added to improve the default tiling experience for GNOME desktops.

Kali Linux 2023.2 also makes comprehensive improvements to i3 products, including the Tile window Manager, with a new lock screen, on / off menus, and two desktop variants, one with tiled windows and the other with floating windows.

Several new hacking tools have been added in this release, including Cilium-cli for installing, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters, Cosign for container signing, Eksctl as the official CLI for Amazon EKS, and Evilginx as an independent broker-an intermediate attack framework for phishing login credentials and session cookie that allows two-factor authentication to be bypassed.

Other new tools include GoPhish, the open source phishing toolkit, Humble, a fast security-oriented HTTP header analyzer, Slim (toolkit) to shrink container images, Syft images and file systems to generate software bill of materials from containers, and Terraform to create, change, and improve infrastructure securely and predictably.

The list of new tools in Kali Linux 2023.2 continues to include eBPF-based security observability and runtime execution tools Tetragon; extensible, open source, and free security incident response platforms TheHive; WSGI-based generic and extensible WebDAV server Wsgidav; finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM tools in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds, etc.

In addition, the Kali menu has been updated and improved with new Hyper-V VM images, additional firmware has been added to all ARM images, and Kali WSL rootfs build scripts have been overhauled.

Download from the Kali Linux 2023.2 official website attached to CTOnews.com (click here) to find various versions for ARM, VM, cloud or mobile platforms.

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