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Ethical-hacking projects on GitHub

Learning resources and tools for legal, authorized security testing.

As of , the most-starred Ethical-hacking projects on GitHub are strix (69.1K stars), shannon (49K stars) and Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (34.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 24 Ethical-hacking repositories with 348.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was strix, with +214 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+214

strix

usestrix/strix · ★ 69.1K

Strix is an open-source tool that uses autonomous AI agents to pentest your application like real hackers: it runs your code dynamically, finds vulnerabilities, and proves them with working exploits instead of just flagging suspicious patterns.

+81

shannon

KeygraphHQ/shannon · ★ 49K

Shannon is an autonomous AI pentester that analyzes your web application's source code, maps attack vectors, and then executes real exploits against the running app to prove vulnerabilities before they reach production — 'no exploit, no report'.

+71

Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills · ★ 34.6K

An open-source library of 818 production-grade cybersecurity skills for AI agents, covering 34 security domains and mapped to six frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF 2.0.

+26

90DaysOfCyberSecurity

farhanashrafdev/90DaysOfCyberSecurity · ★ 20.1K

A free, 90-day self-paced cybersecurity study plan: daily tasks and curated resources that take you from networking basics to ethical hacking, ending with job-hunting help.

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24 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · usestrix/strix

    strix

    Strix is an open-source tool that uses autonomous AI agents to pentest your application like real hackers: it runs your code dynamically, finds vulnerabilities, and proves them with working exploits instead of just flagging suspicious patterns.

    69.1K
  2. #2 · KeygraphHQ/shannon

    shannon

    Shannon is an autonomous AI pentester that analyzes your web application's source code, maps attack vectors, and then executes real exploits against the running app to prove vulnerabilities before they reach production — 'no exploit, no report'.

    49K
  3. #3 · mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

    Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

    An open-source library of 818 production-grade cybersecurity skills for AI agents, covering 34 security domains and mapped to six frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF 2.0.

    34.6K
  1. 4

    h4cker

    29.8KThe-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker · Jupyter Notebook

    A curated collection of thousands of cybersecurity resources — references, scripts, tools, code, labs, and training material — maintained by Omar Santos as a companion to his books, video courses, and live training.

  2. 5

    awesome-pentest

    27.5Kenaqx/awesome-pentest

    A curated collection of penetration testing and offensive-security resources: tools, books, courses, conferences and practice targets for authorized security testing.

  3. 6

    90DaysOfCyberSecurity

    20.1Kfarhanashrafdev/90DaysOfCyberSecurity

    A free, 90-day self-paced cybersecurity study plan: daily tasks and curated resources that take you from networking basics to ethical hacking, ending with job-hunting help.

  4. 7

    evilginx2

    15.7Kkgretzky/evilginx2 · Go

    Evilginx is a man-in-the-middle attack framework used for phishing login credentials along with session cookies, which lets an attacker bypass 2-factor authentication.

  5. 8

    hacker-roadmap

    15.7Ksundowndev/hacker-roadmap

    This is a curated roadmap and toolkit index for learning and practicing ethical hacking: it explains what penetration testing is and groups hundreds of security tools, wordlists and references by category (recon, password attacks, wireless, exploitation, web hacking, post-exploitation, frameworks).

  6. 9

    social-engineer-toolkit

    15.4Ktrustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit · Python

    The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is an open-source penetration testing framework for authorized social-engineering assessments, giving security teams guided attack vectors to test user awareness and validate controls.

  7. 10

    hacker101

    14.6KHacker0x01/hacker101 · SCSS

    Hacker101 is a free online class for web and mobile security from HackerOne (the Hacker0x01 org), aimed at everyone from programmers curious about bug bounties to seasoned security professionals.

  8. 11

    hacktricks

    12.6KHackTricks-wiki/hacktricks · JavaScript

    A free, open wiki of hacking tricks and techniques — everything the author has learnt from CTFs, real-world apps and security research, organized into a browsable reference with 12.5k+ GitHub stars.

  9. 12

    Claude-Red

    7.6KSnailSploit/Claude-Red · Python

    claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills for the Claude Skills system: structured SKILL.md files that prime Claude with expert-level methodology for one attack surface each, from SQLi to shellcode.

  10. 13

    user-scanner

    5.4Kkaifcodec/user-scanner · Python

    User Scanner is an OSINT (open-source intelligence) CLI tool that takes an email address or username and scans it across 2720+ platforms (210+ email vectors, 2510+ username vectors) to map digital footprints, scrape profile metadata, and surface linked accounts.

  11. 14

    Agentic-Bug-Hunter

    5.4Kawarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter · Python

    Agentic Bug Hunter is an AI-powered bug bounty toolkit that runs recon, tests for vulnerabilities, validates findings against a strict gate, and writes submission-ready reports for HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, or Immunefi, right from your terminal.

  12. 15

    exploitarium

    5.2Kbikini/exploitarium · Python

    Exploitarium is a single consolidated archive of the author's public proof-of-concept exploits and vulnerability research writeups, merging dozens of their former standalone PoC repos into one place.

  13. 16

    Claude-BugHunter

    5.1Kelementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter · Python

    A drop-in skill bundle for the Claude Code skills system that turns Claude into a bug-hunting researcher or red-team operator: it ships 83 skills, 15 slash commands, and knowledge curated from 681 disclosed HackerOne reports across 24 vulnerability classes, plus enterprise identity and infrastructure attack matrices.

  14. 17

    airgorah

    4.2Kmartin-olivier/airgorah · Rust

    Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing tool written in Rust that captures nearby WiFi traffic, discovers clients connected to access points, performs deauthentication attacks, captures handshakes and PMKIDs, and cracks access point passwords.

  15. 18

    copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431

    4.1Ktheori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 · Python

    This repository is a technical writeup and proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-31431, a 9-year-old Linux kernel local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability found by Theori's AI vulnerability research tool, Xint Code.

  16. 19

    redamon

    3.1Ksamugit83/redamon · Python

    RedAmon is an open-source, self-hosted AI framework that chains reconnaissance, exploitation and post-exploitation into one pipeline, maps the attack surface into a Neo4j graph, and then triages findings and opens GitHub pull requests that fix what it discovers.

  17. 20

    wifit3

    2.4Kderv82/wifit3 · Python

    wifit3 is a standalone Wi-Fi security auditing tool that scans networks, captures WPA/WPA2 handshakes, and exploits WPS/WEP weaknesses using a supported USB Wi-Fi adapter, without relying on aircrack-ng or OS kernel drivers.

  18. 21

    bug-bounty-hunting-prompts

    621mdpsec/bug-bounty-hunting-prompts

    A pack of reusable prompt files for running a structured, evidence-first bug bounty hunting workflow with an LLM agent, covering recon through triage and escalation.

  19. 22

    Ai-jailbreak

    479Quincunx33/Ai-jailbreak · JavaScript

    A curated collection of jailbreak prompts and exploit techniques that bypass the safety guardrails of both open-weight models (Gemma, Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, Phi-4, Mistral) and frontier closed models (GPT-5.x, Gemini 3.x, Grok 4.x), documented for red-teaming and AI safety research.

  20. 23

    CVE-2026-9830

    477opaxial/CVE-2026-9830 · Python

    A Python proof-of-concept that validates a reported unauthenticated REST API exposure in the BookingPress Pro WordPress plugin, which can leak booking and customer data.

  21. 24

    Claude-AD

    212ADScanPro/Claude-AD

    Claude-AD is a Claude Code plugin that gives Claude the methodology for an internal Active Directory penetration test: skills, agents and slash commands covering Kerberoasting, ADCS ESC1-17, DCSync, ACL abuse, NTLM relay and delegation abuse, each with OPSEC and telemetry notes.

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