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swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings

A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#bounty #bugbounty #bypass #cheatsheet #enumeration #hacking

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

80,489

stars

Forks: 17,334
Commits: 2,202 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skylot/jadx

Dex to Java decompiler

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #decompiler #dex #java

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-03-18
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 446 open

50,219

stars

Forks: 5,737
Commits: 2,693 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rapid7/metasploit-framework

Metasploit Framework

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Next.js React Sinatra Bundler .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 596 open

38,886

stars

Forks: 14,951
Commits: 82,767 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aquasecurity/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

Stack

Go Celery Cobra Django Django REST Framework Bun Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #devsecops #docker #go #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-27
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 259 open

37,639

stars

Forks: 636
Commits: 4,190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

soxoj/maigret

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#cli #cybersecurity #identification #information-gathering #infosec #investigation

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

36,945

stars

Forks: 2,861
Commits: 1,526 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs

The most advanced free and open-source browser fingerprinting library

Stack

TypeScript Express npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#audio-fingerprinting #browser #browser-fingerprint #browser-fingerprinting #detection #fingerprint

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-11
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

28,314

stars

Forks: 2,611
Commits: 927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

iBotPeaches/Apktool

A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#9patch #android #apk #apktool #arsc #reverse-engineering

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 78 open

25,434

stars

Forks: 3,989
Commits: 2,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

getsops/sops

Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

Stack

Go gRPC Go Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #devops #gcp #pgp #secret-distribution

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-13
History: 4 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 439 open

22,873

stars

Forks: 1,073
Commits: 2,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

frida/frida

Main repo for hosting release binaries

Stack

Meson Meson

GitHub topics

#frida #instrumentation #vala

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-10
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,959 open

21,690

stars

Forks: 2,196
Commits: 4,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bee-san/RustScan

🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #hacking #hacktoberfest #networking #nmap #pentesting

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 61 open

20,349

stars

Forks: 1,378
Commits: 1,007 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wazuh/wazuh

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Stack

C++ pytest Starlette CMake Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#cloud-security #compliance #configuration-assessement #container-security #cybersecurity #file-integrity-monitoring

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-09-23
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,975 open

16,632

stars

Forks: 2,452
Commits: 49,327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zaproxy/zaproxy

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

Stack

Java Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#appsec #dast #hacktoberfest #opensource #security #security-scanner

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 858 open

15,687

stars

Forks: 2,625
Commits: 10,363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

owasp-amass/amass

In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#attack-surfaces #dns #enumeration #go #golang #information-gathering

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-28
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 238 open

15,053

stars

Forks: 2,174
Commits: 2,874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

crowdsecurity/crowdsec

CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#attacks-prevention #detection #ids #ips #linux #protection

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 288 open

14,619

stars

Forks: 711
Commits: 2,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

evilsocket/opensnitch

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

Stack

Python gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#application-firewall #data-breach #firewall #linux #networking #security

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-16
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 189 open

14,026

stars

Forks: 659
Commits: 2,293 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OWASP/mastg

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

AI dev

Stack

Python Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #android-application #compliancy-checklist #dynamic-analysis #hacking #ios

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 235 open

13,141

stars

Forks: 2,783
Commits: 10,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aboul3la/Sublist3r

Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2024-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 253 open

11,024

stars

Forks: 2,216
Commits: 138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bunkerity/bunkerweb

🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Flask Starlette CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#antibot #cybersecurity #devops #devsecops #dnsbl #docker

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-20
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 164 open

10,871

stars

Forks: 641
Commits: 10,504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

firezone/firezone

Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®.

AI dev

Stack

Elixir Android Axum Ecto Phoenix Cargo Mix Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud #devsecops #elixir #elixir-lang #liveview #network

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-22
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 392 open

9,040

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 11,242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

99designs/aws-vault

A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-vault #cli #credentials #iam #keychain

Updated: 2025-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-11
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

8,984

stars

Forks: 832
Commits: 1,225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bridgecrewio/checkov

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

Stack

Python Django Express Flask gRPC Go Bundler .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-security #azure #cloudformation #compliance #devops

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 164 open

8,966

stars

Forks: 1,395
Commits: 17,422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

volatilityfoundation/volatility

An advanced memory forensics framework

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#malware #memory #python #ram #volatility-framework

Updated: 2025-05-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-03
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 222 open

8,060

stars

Forks: 1,346
Commits: 2,827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

arkime/arkime

Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

AI dev

Stack

C Express Svelte Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #javascript #network-monitoring #nsm #packet-capture

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

7,448

stars

Forks: 1,161
Commits: 6,692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

guardicore/monkey

Infection Monkey - An open-source adversary emulation platform

Stack

Python Flask Next.js pytest React npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#adversary-emulation #infection-monkey #penetration-testing #security-automation #security-tools

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 240 open

7,080

stars

Forks: 829
Commits: 19,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aquasecurity/tfsec

Tfsec is now part of Trivy

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #ci #compliance #devops #devsecops

Updated: 2026-03-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-04
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

7,027

stars

Forks: 558
Commits: 1,356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

StackExchange/blackbox

Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion

Archived AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2025-11-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-06
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

6,771

stars

Forks: 390
Commits: 538 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fleetdm/fleet

Open device management

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go React Bundler Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#binary-authorization #configuration-management #device-management #gitops #ios #linux

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-25
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,482 open

6,756

stars

Forks: 994
Commits: 27,130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lanmaster53/recon-ng

Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources.

Stack

Python

Updated: 2024-11-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2012-10-24
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

5,877

stars

Forks: 916
Commits: 1,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

trustedsec/ptf

The Penetration Testers Framework (PTF) is a way for modular support for up-to-date tools.

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2024-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-12
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 9 open

5,558

stars

Forks: 1,287
Commits: 1,517 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

USArmyResearchLab/Dshell

Dshell is a network forensic analysis framework.

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2024-05-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-17
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

5,490

stars

Forks: 1,135
Commits: 254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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