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The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) v5.1 Released

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STIX ID: report--b151ae81-6a81-5e86-9a1e-88617e6c8497

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-03-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) v5.1 release notes describe a major rewrite of the MSSQL Bruter (moved to impacket), fast UDP 1434 discovery of MSSQL instances, automatic selection of PowerShell injection or binary fallback for payload delivery, dynamic shellcode patching and base64/EncodedCommand techniques, and a new PSEXEC PowerShell Injection attack vector that can deploy Meterpreter to multiple RHOSTS (including pass-the-hash support). The changes emphasize improved speed, reliability, and stealth for wide-scale credential-based compromise via MSSQL and psexec methods.

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