Open source cybersecurity projects
Every project in the registry tagged cybersecurity, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Open-source AI penetration testing tool to find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.
Shannon is an AI pentester for web applications and APIs. It analyzes your source code, identifies attack vectors, and executes real exploits to prove vulnerabi
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
AI agents that autonomously fix code and resolve GitHub issues
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.
Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices
OpenAI's Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities. npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openai/codex-se
🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Open Source Vulnerability Management Platform
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata comm
An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely take over Android devices.
Open-source AI-powered Security Operations Center — alert fusion, purple-team drills, agent-assisted triage, MITRE ATT&CK investigation. MIT-licensed, self-host
基于 AI Agent + MCP 工具链 + 渗透 Skill 编排, 配合大语言模型, 自然语言输入 → 自动完成「信息收集 → 漏洞发现 → 漏洞利用 → 报告生成」全流程。
Open-source AI-powered offensive security harness for automated penetration testing.
Open-source, self-hosted AI penetration testing framework: maps your attack surface into a graph, autonomously exploits it from a Kali sandbox with human approv
Autonomous penetration testing using a swarm of AI agents. Orchestrates recon, classification, exploitation, and reporting specialists with ReAct reasoning — su
Fast, multi-protocol credential brute-forcer. Parses Nmap, Nessus, and Nexpose output to automatically test default and custom credentials across 30+ protocols.
ARTEX 한국어판 · AI 자율 침투 테스트 프레임워크(upstream: Autumn-27/ARTEX, AGPL-3.0)
Turn Claude Code into your offensive security research assistant. Specialized AI subagents for authorized penetration testing plan engagements, analyze recon, r
A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
Fix Inventory helps you identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes.
Open-source AI pentester that proves every finding. Machine oracles re-run each exploit; verified bugs ship a proof capsule you can replay yourself.
Free email OSINT tool, 5000+ platforms, identity clustering, breach detection. No API keys required. pip install mailaccess
OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open-source, deliberately vulnerable web application providing a target for web-security training. This is an easy-to-use web hac
NeuroSploit is an advanced, AI-powered penetration testing framework designed to automate and augment various aspects of offensive security operations.
Autonomous AI pentesting agents — real-time reconnaissance, vulnerability detection, and exploitation orchestration. Go + TypeScript.
🛡️ Free open-source AI-powered security terminal & vulnerability scanner (CVE, SBOM). Supports SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, Serial, and 12+ autonomous AI agents (DeepS
ARTEX · AI autonomous penetration testing system (multi-agent LLM, Go + Next.js) · AI 自主渗透测试系统 · 百度 agent+ 攻防挑战赛冠军
An AI-powered threat modeling tool that leverages OpenAI's GPT models to generate threat models for a given application based on the STRIDE methodology.
Fast, red-teaming browser built for AI agents, with direct HTTP traffic control, sandboxed execution, and auditable sessions. Pure Rust.
Krawl is a customizable, lightweight, cloud-native web deception server and anti-crawler that creates fake web applications with low-hanging vulnerabilities usi
HydraSoft: dependency-free Windows DLL hijack scanner with centralized remote management — HydraAgent, PHP API, and a web console for endpoint security checks a
Fast, developer-friendly JS/TS dependency vulnerability scanner with local lockfile scanning, OSV matching, direct vs transitive visibility, --fix, JSON output,
RedTiger-Tools is a multifunction automation tool dedicated to pentesting and OSINT. The project is open source and designed to be fully configurable according
Passive API key and secret discovery browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. 80+ detection patterns, zero config.
Real-time network monitor + outbound firewall — see & block every connection. Privacy-first, local-first, Rust fleet agent, SIEM exports, 8 languages. / Moniteu
🛡⚔️AI-Powered Penetration Testing Framework with automated vulnerability scanning, multi-agent system, and compliance reporting🛡⚔️
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source cybersecurity projects are there?
This registry tracks 40 projects tagged cybersecurity, with 362,833 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is strix at 73,259 stars.
Are these cybersecurity projects free to use?
Yes — 40 of the 40 carry an explicit open-source licence across 5 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which cybersecurity project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these cybersecurity projects still maintained?
38 of the 40 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.