- Kali Linux 2025.2 provides new powerful tools for experienced penetration testers
- Offensive security realign Kali’s interface with Mitre ATT & CK – Finally, the Piracy Function Structure
- New Bloodhound tools refer to deeper Azure and Active Directory targeting than ever before
The latest update of Kali Linux, version 2025.2, has more than a dozen tools in parallel with improvements in the user experience and the management of the platform.
Security offensive, the developers of the distribution based in Debian, announced its general availability by clearly emphasizing the alignment of the system with the Miter ATT & CK frame.
The restructured Kali menu is now suitable to make the discovery of tools more intuitive, but if this structural change leads to a significant improvement in the workflow remains to be seen.
The new version includes 13 additional tools, many of which are specialized for advanced offensive operations.
Tools like Azurehound for collecting data from the Azure and Bloodhound-Cy-Python directory, a Python ingrator for Bloodhound CE, seem to target complex corporate environments.
Meanwhile, Binwalk3 extends the analysis capacities of the firmware and BOPSCRK allows a creation of personalized words based on intelligent algorithms.
Certain additions, such as CRLFUZZ, which is “a quick tool for scanning the CRLF vulnerability written in Go”, and Donut-Shellcode, which allows users to “generate shell codes independent of position from memory and execute”, suggest that the continuous version of responding to qualified practitioners.
Kali Linux 2025.2 also adds binaries of Cimitity-Commun and Ligolo-Ng-Communs binarys, which both offer prefabilized binaries aimed at tunneler and pivot, common activities in the red team.
In terms of enumeration and lateral movement, tools like LDEEP, described as “a utility listed in depth” and Rubeus, focused on “the interaction and the raw abuse of Kerberos”, contribute more.
Although these tools can use ethical hackers, the level of expertise required to operate them effectively can act as a limiting factor for beginners.
Among the most visible quality of life improvements, there is the integration of the new IP GNOME VPN extension, which allows direct visualization of the VPN IP address from the panel.
Although this feature is practical, it is not spectacular and it remains best an addition of fringes.
This new update also supports GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 office environments.
Raspberry Pi users now have a new update that combines certain Raspberry Pi OS images, eliminating the need for a separate image for the Raspberry Pi 5.
This update also presents Kali Nethunter Carsenal, a dedicated suite for automotive security analysis.
Although there is one of the best Linux distros for ethical hacking, some users may always prefer Linux alternatives who look more at safety or more perfectly integrate the network surveillance tools.
Via 9To5linux
