Top 11 C++ Cybersecurity Projects

ImHex

46 32,832 9.9 C++

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

Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

ImHex
“A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.”
I actually used it not too long ago to inspect why a mp4 file wasn’t valid. The pattern language that they have is quite nice and having sections of the hex highlighted and being able to see what structures they represent and what data was on those structures was very useful!
https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

gnuradio

22 4,783 9.4 C++

GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem

Project mention: Upsampling in Gnuradio is necessary? | /r/sdr | 2023-08-11

In gr-dtv transmitter examples for Gnuradio, I see some times people use a resampler block before the RF hardware sink. Say our sampling rate is ~9.14Msps which satisfies the Nyquist criterion because our samples are complex numbers.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Nidhogg

9 1,597 8.3 C++

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

Project mention: Jormungandr is a kernel implementation of a COFF loader, allowing kernel developers to load and execute their COFFs in the kernel. | /r/netsec | 2023-06-24

This is not an exploit nor an example about how to write a driver and I didn't write anywhere about an exploit or how to write an driver. If you are looking for these kind of resources, feel free to check out my driver programming blog series "Lord of the Ring0" (and a talk that will be released soon! :) ): https://idov31.github.io/2022/07/14/lord-of-the-ring0-p1.html

logkeys

4 730 0.0 C++

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

1 531 7.4 C++

A Header Only C++ Library for Storing Safe, Randomly Generated Data Into Modern Containers
Venom

3 360 2.6 C++

Venom is a library that meant to perform evasive communication using stolen browser socket (by Idov31)
GRFICSv2

1 332 0.0 C++

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

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Degate

2 229 5.7 C++

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

Project mention: Semi-automatic VLSI reverse engineering of digital logic in chips | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-02

Jormungandr

5 208 4.5 C++

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

Project mention: Jormungandr is a kernel implementation of a COFF loader, allowing kernel developers to load and execute their COFFs in the kernel. | /r/RedSec | 2023-06-27

deserter

6 107 0.0 C++

A targeted DNS cache poisoner
AixCrypt

1 22 0.0 C++

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).