Cain & Abel - Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia Archived: 2026-04-05 13:58:49 UTC Home > List all groups > List all tools > List all groups using tool Cain & Abel Tool: Cain & Abel Names Cain & Abel Category Tools Type Credential stealer Description (Wikipedia) Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It can recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks are done via rainbow tables which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel is maintained by Massimiliano Montoro and Sean Babcock. Information Last change to this tool card: 20 April 2020 Download this tool card in JSON format All groups using tool Cain & Abel Changed Name Country Observed APT groups   Carbanak, Anunak 2013-Apr 2023   Night Dragon 2009   2 groups listed (2 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown) Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=21826cc2-7a75-472b-8f14-6a775456a8a2 https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=21826cc2-7a75-472b-8f14-6a775456a8a2 Page 1 of 1