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Top 13 Rust Cybersecurity Projects
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hayabusa
Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
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matano
Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS
Project mention: Matano: Open-source security data lake for cybersecurity analytics | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-03 -
Project mention: Cloudflare Is Blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-05
To echo further, they may be leaning on something like the [ja4 fingerprint](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...) (which you'd need to rebuild curl to emulate that chromium version to try and trick).
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cherrybomb
Stop half-done APIs! Cherrybomb is a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by auditing your API specifications, validating them and running API security tests.
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DataSurgeon
Quickly Extracts IP's, Email Addresses, Hashes, Files, Credit Cards, Social Security Numbers and a lot More From Text
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FunctionStomping
Shellcode injection technique. Given as C++ header, standalone Rust program or library.
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SaaSHub
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Owlyshield
Owlyshield is an EDR framework designed to safeguard vulnerable applications from potential exploitation (C&C, exfiltration and impact).
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Hacking-Rust
A FREE comprehensive online Rust hacking tutorial utilizing the x64, ARM64 and ARM32 architectures going step-by-step into the world of reverse engineering Rust from scratch.
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fim
FIM is an Open Source Host-based file integrity monitoring tool that performs file system analysis, file integrity checking, real time alerting and provides Audit daemon data.
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malwaredb-rs
MalwareDB: bookkeeping for malware, goodware, and unknown files with relationship discovery
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Project mention: Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-23
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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).
Rust Cybersecurity discussion
Rust Cybersecurity related posts
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JA4
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Cherrybomb: Audit, validate and test API specifications
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Owlyshield - an EDR framework designed to safeguard vulnerable applications from potential exploitation (C&C, exfiltration and impact)
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Speeding up lemmeknow by transposing Lazy<Vec<_>>
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DataSurgeon: Quickly Extracts IP's, Email Addresses, Hashes, Files, URLs, Phone numbers and more from text
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DataSurgeon: Extracts URLs, Credit Cards, Emails and Many More from Text
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How to Handle Errors in Rust: A Comprehensive Guide
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Cybersecurity projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hayabusa | 2,607 |
| 2 | matano | 1,556 |
| 3 | ja4 | 1,290 |
| 4 | cherrybomb | 1,183 |
| 5 | lemmeknow | 997 |
| 6 | DataSurgeon | 778 |
| 7 | FunctionStomping | 695 |
| 8 | Owlyshield | 405 |
| 9 | Hacking-Rust | 190 |
| 10 | fim | 158 |
| 11 | malwaredb-rs | 44 |
| 12 | sherlock-rs | 40 |
| 13 | cupp-rs | 27 |
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