{"id":3874,"date":"2019-08-01T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:10:04","slug":"bettercap-for-debugging-bluetooth-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bettercap-for-debugging-bluetooth-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettercap for Debugging Bluetooth LE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a useful tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettercap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"bettercap (opens in a new tab)\">bettercap<\/a> that claims to be the <em>&#8220;Swiss Army knife for WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy, wireless HID hijacking and Ethernet networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While you might want to use it to test Bluetooth LE security, a more interesting use is for debugging Bluetooth LE. If you are scanning for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"advertising (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bluetoothle.wiki\/advertising\" target=\"_blank\">advertising<\/a> or creating or using <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GATT (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bluetoothle.wiki\/gatt\" target=\"_blank\">GATT<\/a>, for example with a beacon, it&#8217;s sometimes useful to have a separate way of exercising Bluetooth LE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bettercap is written in Go and runs on GNU\/Linux, BSD, Android, Apple macOS and the Microsoft Windows. However, a bug in Windows and macOS prevents the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bluetooth commands (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bettercap.org\/modules\/ble\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bluetooth commands<\/a> from working. Hence, it&#8217;s for Linux or Android only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap-1024x466.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap-1024x466.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap-1200x546.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bettercap.png 1693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Better caps runs in the browser and you can create scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mks_01\/bluetooth-low-energy-recon-using-bettercap-a53bb1b46e93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tutorial on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a useful tool called bettercap that claims to be the &#8220;Swiss Army knife for WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy, wireless HID hijacking and Ethernet networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks&#8221;. While you might want to use it to test Bluetooth LE security, a more interesting use is for debugging Bluetooth LE. If you are scanning for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bettercap-for-debugging-bluetooth-le\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bettercap for Debugging Bluetooth LE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,96,136,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}