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    <title>above — The Cyber Toolchain</title>
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    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:33:24 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>above v2.8</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:33:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Above v2.8 adds HSRPv2 detection, VRRPv2 plaintext password decoding, and MAC vendor identification.
• Adds HSRPv2 protocol support for detecting first-hop redundancy attacks.
• Adds decoding of plaintext passwords found in VRRPv2 packets.
• Adds vendor detection by MAC address to aid device fingerprinting during network reconnaissance.
Breaking changes:
• RADIUS protocol support has been removed; setups relying on Above to detect RADIUS traffic will no longer capture it.
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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      <title>above v2.7</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 04:32:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Above v2.7 adds SNMP and RADIUS protocol detection to its network threat-visibility toolkit.
• Adds SNMP and RADIUS protocol support for network threat detection.
• Separates VLAN search into a dedicated function for improved modularity.
• Rewrites host discovery via Passive ARP for enhanced reliability.
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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      <title>above v2.5</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:25:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Above v2.5 adds support for EAPOL, ARP, IGMP, DHCP, and ICMPv6 protocols
• Adds new parsing capabilities for EAPOL, ARP, IGMP, DHCP, and ICMPv6 protocols.
• Introduces a new visual output mode for displaying captured packets.
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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      <title>above v2.3</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:09:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Above v2.3 adds protocol support for SSDP, VRRP v2/v3, LLDP, MNDP, and DTP plus mitigation display.
• Adds `SSDP`, `VRRP` (v2 &amp; v3), `LLDP`, `MNDP`, and `DTP` protocol support
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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      <title>above vettel</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:34:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Adds `--record-pcap` and `--analyze-pcap` flags for traffic recording and analysis.
• Adds `--record-pcap` flag to record live traffic directly into a `.pcap` file.
• Adds `--analyze-pcap &lt;path&gt;` flag to analyze previously recorded `.pcap` files.
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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      <title>above vivid</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:41:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Above &apos;vivid&apos; adds Simultaneous Multi-Protocol Analysis and 802.1Q Tag Search
• `protocol` search now targets all 12 supported network protocols simultaneously instead of one at a time, enabling unified detection across the full protocol stack.
• New `802.1q_tag` argument allows searching specifically for 802.1Q tags to detect segmentation security issues on VLANs.
Full history on Cyber Toolchain: https://cybertoolchain.io/tools/above</description>
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