Top 4 Shell vulnerability-scanner Projects

lynis

72 12,493 8.1 Shell

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

Project mention: Who does check linux distros of malware - open source | /r/linux | 2023-12-10

Linux has (free) tools to improve security and detect/remove malware: Lynis,Chkrootkit,Rkhunter,ClamAV,Vuls,LMD,radare2,Yara,ntopng,maltrail,Snort,Suricata...

nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

11 3,657 9.8 Shell

Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders

Project mention: Nginx Bad Bot and User-Agent Blocker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

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.
EMBA

49 2,400 9.9 Shell

EMBA - The firmware security analyzer

Project mention: New EMBA firmware analyzer release - EMBA v1.2.3 - R.I.P. Binwalk | /r/netsec | 2023-05-11

Log4j-RCE-Scanner

1 256 3.8 Shell

Remote command execution vulnerability scanner for Log4j.

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-07.