Hi Diego, I have attached links to the screenshots of my Empire session. As you can see in the upper terminal window (server) it just stops at that point and does not continue further. No error messages (except for the csharpserver error, which I also get on the 2022 version as well but it still works properly), but it does not continue to a status bar at the bottom displaying agents etc. I have purged and reinstalled the 2024 zSecurity custom Kali 3 times, and there is no difference… I get this every time. I try to run the attack anyway, but no connection is ever made. It just hangs at this point, and goes no further.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cXyN6iY_K9MxP3QUB-vO9zxFxwZjOxXD/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/163RGGPQjIv6yo4Ketn3rV85Qa09D6-mv/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/100e5SNlS7AltjL-hKqJdvLWLbhJaDp8y/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/172Fv-BQ6QSlvzLgVUaY5E0xUOArqG-Qz/view?usp=drive_link

The client side however, seems to work properly and becomes active after I hit execute, but when I open the executable on my virtual windows machine, nothing happens, no agents display as being connected. This exact same process works perfectly using the custom zSecurity Kali 2022 machine.

Ross

Diego…… I am so frustrated. I spend 20% of my time trying to watch the lessons and learn the techniques… and 80% of my time is wasted trying to make the tools work as they should. Since I have updated the Custom Kali version to the 2024 image, I have tried to re-install everything I had worked hard to debug and make work properly before…. the VM machine has broken so many times, I have had to delete and reinstall it so many times that this has just gotten me down. I get so many errors during the installation process for Empire, for The Fat Rat, for Fluxion, and others etc…. that I just give up. None of those tools are actually working for me in the new version. Now I can’t even get Empire installed, so there is no point asking me for screen shots because I can’t even get to where I can launch a practice attack with it. I have looked online for help but there’s a zillion different answers to everything and they all create other problems, I have used chatGPT but that hasn’t really helped either – I am not an experienced computer programmer, I have not taken any Computer Science courses – so I can’t really apply any of my own skills to fixing these issues, and submitting screen shots and posts on this Forum is just taking way too long and is way too cumbersome with vague answers and tips that reflect the assumption that I know more than I really do, in order to really get anything solved in a reasonable amount of time. What I need is tools… and download/installation instructions that actually work! By the time I get anything sorted out I have lost my thread in keeping up with the lesson material anyway, and I end up just skipping forward without having the benefit of actually properly managing any testing in my Hacking Lab. Not a great way to learn. I started along this path because I was intrigued by the topic and interested in exploring possibilities with a subject I love – computers… but “Learning From Scratch” as the courses were described… well that’s not quite right!

Hi Diego, I have more screenshots to share with you to illustrate the issues. My machine is an Apple Macbook Air M1, running on macOS Sonoma ver. 14.5
I have once again purged/deleted Custom Kali 2024 version and started again from scratch with a completely new download – fourth time I have done this:(
The following screenshots are taken after I have run ‘apt update’:
1) Initial Empire download using ‘apt-get install powershell-empire: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LBLNjaiWIut0cio-MBUrQG1e8P5K9br_/view?usp=drive_link
it stops here and I cannot get any further.
2) Screenshot of Empire running properly on Custom Kali 2022 version – same machine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WWhcMQC4QGObcxjDC2XreeQCy9MTDsV2/view?usp=drive_link
3) Initial attempt to download Fluxion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s2NaO8oNImxF6uRzqkZqsE1YJs6CTV9k/view?usp=drive_link
4) Fluxion install hangs up here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xcNxALPTUmwNjHS_MSIiU0Wf5KlsoiZp/view?usp=drive_link
5) This is the result regardless of of choice I enter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zce7bZJrO9iXXl8Zy4jkgcmDoeF2ueQB/view?usp=drive_link it goes blank and freezes, I have to force stop it and try to restart.
6) Attempt to restart Fluxion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YB7WKhjm_MbH80oY_Yxh0lp66_b2T2XE/view?usp=drive_link
7) Result of restart of Fluxion after forced stop – Kali is broken and I cannot get it back to normal operation unless I delete it and reinstall it from scratch (which I have done numerous times: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vtRhyaupceH3LCmzrVvJtqznjbdJGrMB/view?usp=drive_link
I have been spending many frustrating hours trying to update the new Custom Kali 2024 with tools I had in the older version, as well as trying to go through the Learn Network Hacking Intermediate course (because I have already done the Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch course), and I need to have Fluxion working properly so that I can continue my learning past Lesson 7.2. I am in limbo and cannot go any further at this point until I get these issues resolved. Can you please help me?

Ross

Hey Diego, thank you for that heads up, it really helped. I downloaded version v1.0.13.1 and started reinstalling tools. I installed Storm Breaker with no issues, I installed Fluxion with no issues, and then I installed Empire. I haven’t had a chance to test it, but when i start the Server to see if it will run I get these errors:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16QJkMs2nst5H8vvc71F6uw2IeJBgjBw4/view?usp=drive_link

I see that in Zaid’s video lesson on Empire it shows csharpserver running properly, but here I get an error; also there’s the [No such file or directory found: ‘dotnet’] and [Plugin failed to run csharpserver]. Are these errors something that needs fixing? You can also see at the bottom of the terminal window there is no EMPIRE TEAM SERVER bar with Agents and Listeners displayed…. the cursor is just stopped there and blinks. Here’s a screenshot of the bar on the 2022 Custom Kali version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WWhcMQC4QGObcxjDC2XreeQCy9MTDsV2/view?usp=drive_link

Any thoughts?
Thank you for getting me back on track to this point, I’m just wondering if it needs a bit more tweaking to get it to work properly, or if it can work the way it is, with these errors displaying when I start the powershell-empire Server?

Once again, thank you Diego. You have been most helpful in getting me back on track. I definitely gotta buy you a beer;)

Ross