LaZagne

LaZagne

LaZagne is an open source password recovery tool for Windows. It can retrieve stored passwords from multiple browsers and applications. Useful for pentesters and forensic analysts to dump passwords.
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LaZagne: Open Source Password Recovery Tool

Recover Windows passwords with LaZagne, an open source tool for pentesters and forensic analysts to dump stored passwords from multiple browsers and applications.

What is LaZagne?

LaZagne is an open source password recovery tool for Windows operating systems. It can retrieve stored passwords and sensitive information from multiple browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer, as well as many other applications like email clients, FTP clients, instant messaging software, and VPN clients.

Some key features of LaZagne include:

  • Retrieving passwords, cookies, history, cached files, and authentication tokens from multiple software and storing them conveniently.
  • Decrypting passwords using a variety of advanced processing techniques like security tokens extraction.
  • Easy filtering to display only relevant results and exclude unnecessary information.
  • Support for retrieving passwords for over 100 software and applications.
  • Available as a standalone executable file that can be run from a USB drive.
  • Open source software written in Python available on GitHub.

LaZagne is especially useful for penetration testers and digital forensics analysts to quickly dump various types of passwords from a Windows system they have access to. It can be used as part of initial information gathering and reconnaissance process during a security audit. It eliminates the manual work of looking at multiple software separately for credentials extraction.

LaZagne Features

Features

  1. Retrieve passwords stored in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc
  2. Recover WiFi passwords
  3. Dump credentials from instant messaging clients
  4. Extract passwords from external drives
  5. Decrypt VPN credentials
  6. Dump passwords from Windows credential manager

Pricing

  • Open Source

Pros

Open source

Free

Works on all Windows versions

Easy to use GUI and CLI

Frequently updated

Retrieves a wide variety of credentials

Cons

Windows only

Requires administrative privileges

Some features may not work on latest OS versions

Limited support for mobile devices

May trigger antivirus alerts


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