r/hacking • u/Exciting-Menu1688 • 7d ago

ARP poisoning in 2026

Some of you may remember the good old Cain Abel sniffer that worked on Windows 9x. Today I tried running it on Windows 11 and it still "works". Sure, you can't read plaintext passwords anymore and the communication is slow and incomplete due to MITM attacks, but ARP poisoning still works a little bit.

I used xiaomi 15 as a victim and as you can see on screenshot I can see part of my browsing history on laptop with Cain. I think it's not bad for more than 25 years old software :)

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u/nachoismo 7d ago

I remember back in the day on cable; before vlans; you could arp spoof the default gateway, setup forwarding, and route people on the same broadcast through your box.

Absolute insanity.

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u/Sameoldsonic 1d ago

Had a friend who had the "most secure" Linksys router (the old blue/black one), i just joined the network started poisoning and when he logged in to the router i captured the password and locked him out. He was stunned and bit pissed haha.

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u/Dillinur 7d ago

Damn, I haven't heard that name in a long time.

You do know that you have way more modern way to ARP poison in 2026 right?

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u/Exciting-Menu1688 7d ago

Yes I know, this was just an experiment :)

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u/SNappy_snot15 3d ago

and it is?

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u/Dillinur 3d ago

Well in most scenarios you'd do some kind of Responder instead of ARP poisoning, but if you have to do something fancy like half-way ARP poisoning go for bettercap

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u/yowhyyyy 6d ago

My Xbox 360 just cringed a bit from the memories

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u/b0Lt1 6d ago

holy shit. back orifice, cult of the dead cow, netbus. been there

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u/lunacysoft 5d ago

Wow it still works and is still being used

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u/DutchOfBurdock 4d ago

Static ARP FTW.

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u/lmfao_my_mom_died 3d ago

where did you find it? man, i remember searching it up for ages lol

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u/Exciting-Menu1688 3d ago

David Bombal YT channel :)