Sniffing packets in Go

Pablo Ramos
A bit off
Published in
5 min readJul 28, 2022

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How to capture network traffic and read pcaps in go.

Photo by Karolina Grabowska

Learn to parse network information to get some benefit from it. Automate your work so you don’t have to repeat yourself. Do it in Golang to try it out.

Listening to network communications is key when trying to catch sneaky threats or exploring something that had already happened. There are plenty of tools out there that can be used for this.

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Pablo Ramos
A bit off

Infosec Researcher, traveller, kitesurfing enthusiast. I just like to think outloud