Empire vs PowerSploit
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About Empire
Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that uses PowerShell (Windows) and Python (Linux/macOS) agents. It features cryptologically-secure communications, a flexible architecture, and a wide range of post-exploitation modules. Empire was originally developed by BC Security and has been used extensively in both red team operations and real-world attacks. It supports credential harvesting, lateral movement, persistence, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
About PowerSploit
PowerSploit is a collection of Microsoft PowerShell modules that aid penetration testers during all phases of an assessment. Modules include PowerView (AD enumeration), Invoke-Mimikatz (in-memory credential extraction), Get-GPPPassword (Group Policy preference passwords), and dozens more. While the project is archived, it remains one of the most referenced PowerShell offensive toolkits and its techniques are still actively used.
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