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Top 12 C++ Cybersecurity Projects

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  1. ImHex

    🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

    Project mention: Capstone Disassembler Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-25

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. x64dbg

    An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

    Project mention: Debugging bugs in x64dbg debugger. Step out to GUI | dev.to | 2024-11-19

    Several months have passed since the last part was posted. Maintainers of x64dbg have continued to improve its functionality. They also opened a task to update the development tools. So in this post, we will continue the analysis based on commit f518e50 code and, where possible, we'll compare it with the commit 9785d1a, which is accurate at the time of writing.

  4. Wazuh

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

    Project mention: Wazuh: Your Open-Source Security Superhero | dev.to | 2025-04-11

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  5. gnuradio

    GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem

  6. Nidhogg

    Nidhogg is an all-in-one simple to use windows kernel rootkit.

  7. logkeys

    :memo: :keyboard: A GNU/Linux keylogger that works!

  8. GRFICSv2

    Version 2 of the Graphical Realism Framework for Industrial Control Simulation (GRFICS)

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  10. Venom

    Venom is a library that meant to perform evasive communication using stolen browser socket (by Idov31)

  11. Degate

    A modern and open-source cross-platform software for chips reverse engineering.

  12. Jormungandr

    Jormungandr is a kernel implementation of a COFF loader, allowing kernel developers to load and execute their COFFs in the kernel. (by Idov31)

  13. deserter

    A targeted DNS cache poisoner

  14. AixCrypt

    A Key Calculation Based Program For Data Confidentiality Over A Steganography-Like Technique Using The ROT Algorithm

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Jormungandr is a kernel implementation of a COFF loader, allowing kernel developers to load and execute their COFFs in the kernel.

    1 project | /r/RedSec | 27 Jun 2023

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Cybersecurity projects in C++? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 ImHex 47,916
2 x64dbg 45,846
3 Wazuh 12,218
4 gnuradio 5,409
5 Nidhogg 1,943
6 logkeys 775
7 GRFICSv2 483
8 Venom 376
9 Degate 259
10 Jormungandr 229
11 deserter 118
12 AixCrypt 23

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