// Hacker Noon · 5 March 2026

I Built a Tool to Test Default Credentials at Scale Because "admin/admin" Still Works Everywhere

Brutus is a multi-protocol credential testing tool written in Go. It takes fingerprintx and naabu output directly and produces structured JSON. Brutus embeds every one of these key collections directly into the binary.

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