How Brutus grew into an engine that finds your identities, tests them everywhere they’re accepted, and remembers what it confirms. An attacker rarely needs a novel exploit when a valid username and password pair is sitting in a breach dump, reused across a dozen internal services, or left at a vendor default nobody changed. Brutus started as a focused credential testing tool.
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