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Top 23 Python Infosec Projects
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Wow, it's actually real.
https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
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Project mention: Should you leave red herrings about yourself online? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11
This article reminded me of seeing this in GH trending repositories last month: https://github.com/soxoj/maigret
"For educational and lawful purposes only"
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Project mention: Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-12
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Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 5 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND & NIST AI RMF · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI & 20+ platforms · 26 security domains · Apache 2.0
The GitHub Trending board today corroborates this. Of the top fifteen repos, at least four are explicitly Skills-targeted: multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills (154K stars), affaan-m/ECC (192K stars), mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (9K), and the broader multica-ai/multica managed-agents platform.
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DefaultCreds-cheat-sheet
One place for all the default credentials to assist the Blue/Red teamers identifying devices with default password 🛡️
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can-i-take-over-xyz
"Can I take over XYZ?" — a list of services and how to claim (sub)domains with dangling DNS records.
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Project mention: Snoop Project Update (search for usernames on 5k websites) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-01
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Malcolm
Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts (PCAP files), Zeek logs and Suricata alerts.
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cicd-goat
A deliberately vulnerable CI/CD environment. Learn CI/CD security through multiple challenges.
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Bashfuscator
A fully configurable and extendable Bash obfuscation framework. This tool is intended to help both red team and blue team.
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Hunting-Queries-Detection-Rules
KQL Queries. Defender For Endpoint and Azure Sentinel Hunting and Detection Queries in KQL. Out of the box KQL queries for: Advanced Hunting, Custom Detection, Analytics Rules & Hunting Rules.
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Name-That-Hash
🔗 Don't know what type of hash it is? Name That Hash will name that hash type! 🤖 Identify MD5, SHA256 and 300+ other hashes ☄ Comes with a neat web app 🔥
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passphrase-wordlist
Passphrase wordlist and hashcat rules for offline cracking of long, complex passwords
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Search-That-Hash
🔎Searches Hash APIs to crack your hash quickly🔎 If hash is not found, automatically pipes into HashCat⚡
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).
Python Infosec discussion
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An accurate AI password guesser based on personal information
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Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation
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SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence
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Show HN: Automatic security lookups from your clipboard
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How to add a man page to your Ruby project, using kramdown-man and markdown
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Infosec projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sherlock | 84,944 |
| 2 | maigret | 31,804 |
| 3 | spiderfoot | 18,137 |
| 4 | Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills | 15,458 |
| 5 | dirsearch | 14,381 |
| 6 | routersploit | 13,149 |
| 7 | Awesome-WAF | 7,501 |
| 8 | DefaultCreds-cheat-sheet | 6,600 |
| 9 | faraday | 6,518 |
| 10 | can-i-take-over-xyz | 5,645 |
| 11 | NetExec | 5,598 |
| 12 | LinkFinder | 4,322 |
| 13 | snoop | 3,944 |
| 14 | opencve | 2,737 |
| 15 | CTF | 2,503 |
| 16 | Malcolm | 2,435 |
| 17 | cicd-goat | 2,219 |
| 18 | yeti | 1,997 |
| 19 | Bashfuscator | 1,965 |
| 20 | Hunting-Queries-Detection-Rules | 1,708 |
| 21 | Name-That-Hash | 1,655 |
| 22 | passphrase-wordlist | 1,432 |
| 23 | Search-That-Hash | 1,403 |
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