A keylogger is a notorious piece of software that records all keystrokes the user presses. It silently runs as an operating system process in the background. They are capable of recording user passwords, browsing history, confidential data, and much more. There are many keyloggers freely available and ready to use out of the box. In this section, we are going to see how we can create a powerful custom keylogger in Python. A custom keylogger is always better, as we can tailor it according to our needs.
Python comes with a very powerful module known as pyHook for Windows and there is a modification on top of this module to support Linux-based systems, called pyxhook. There are tons of tutorials out on the internet on the usage of the pyhook Windows-based Python keylogger, but there aren't as many tutorials concerning the Linux version...
