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Offensive security and red team tooling

As of , the most-starred Redteam projects on GitHub are sherlock (94.3K stars), PayloadsAllTheThings (81.8K stars) and maigret (39.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 26 Redteam repositories with 435.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was sherlock, with +93 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+93

sherlock

sherlock-project/sherlock · ★ 94.3K

Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.

+41

maigret

soxoj/maigret · ★ 39.2K

Maigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.

+27

PayloadsAllTheThings

swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings · ★ 81.8K

A massive curated collection of payloads, bypass techniques, and exploitation methodology for web application security testing, pentesting, and CTF challenges.

+21

Claude-Red

SnailSploit/Claude-Red · ★ 7.6K

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.

The all-time top

26 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sherlock-project/sherlock

    sherlock

    Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.

    94.3K
  2. #2 · swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings

    PayloadsAllTheThings

    A massive curated collection of payloads, bypass techniques, and exploitation methodology for web application security testing, pentesting, and CTF challenges.

    81.8K
  3. #3 · soxoj/maigret

    maigret

    Maigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.

    39.2K
  1. 4

    PEASS-ng

    20.7Kpeass-ng/PEASS-ng · C#

    PEASS-ng is a suite of local privilege escalation enumeration tools: LinPEAS for Linux/Unix/macOS and WinPEAS for Windows. They scan a machine for privesc paths and print misconfigurations with nice colors so you can spot them easily.

  2. 5

    bettercap

    20.2Kbettercap/bettercap · Go

    A portable all-in-one framework written in Go for recon and attacks on WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy, wireless HID, CAN-bus and IPv4/IPv6 networks, built for security researchers and red teamers.

  3. 6

    Micro8

    18KMicropoor/Micro8

    A free, open-source series of penetration-testing lessons written by veteran Chinese pentester Micropoor and published as a GitBook. It covers code audit, web, intranet and domain penetration, tunneling, and log-based tracing.

  4. 7

    theHarvester

    18Klaramies/theHarvester · Python

    An open-source OSINT tool that gathers emails, subdomains and names about a domain or organization from public sources: search engines, certificate transparency logs, DNS datasets, code repositories and threat-intel platforms, normalizing hostnames, emails, IPs, URLs, ASNs, people and breach names.

  5. 8

    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.

  6. 9

    dirsearch

    15Kmaurosoria/dirsearch · Python

    Dirsearch is an advanced command-line web path brute-forcer used to discover hidden files and directories on websites for security testing.

  7. 10

    GTFOBins.github.io

    13.8KGTFOBins/GTFOBins.github.io · YAML

    GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be abused to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems — for example, binaries a restricted user can turn into a root shell.

  8. 11

    ESP32Marauder

    12.8Kjustcallmekoko/ESP32Marauder · C++

    ESP32 Marauder is a suite of offensive and defensive WiFi and Bluetooth tools that run as firmware on an ESP32 microcontroller, used for things like wardriving, scanning, and wireless security testing.

  9. 12

    awesome-hacker-search-engines

    11.3Kedoardottt/awesome-hacker-search-engines · Shell

    A curated list of search engines useful for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, red/blue team operations, bug bounty hunting, and general OSINT work.

  10. 13

    LaZagne

    11KAlessandroZ/LaZagne · Python

    LaZagne is an open-source tool that retrieves passwords stored locally on a computer by reverse-engineering the storage method of each software (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.).

  11. 14

    webshell

    10.8Ktennc/webshell · PHP

    It's a community collection of webshells - scripts that give you control of a web server once uploaded - covering all the common server-side languages and maintained by tennc with 10k+ stars.

  12. 15

    nikto

    10.8Ksullo/nikto · Perl

    Nikto is an open-source web server scanner that checks servers for dangerous files, outdated software versions, and other common vulnerabilities.

  13. 16

    nishang

    10.2Ksamratashok/nishang · PowerShell

    Nishang is a framework and large collection of PowerShell scripts and payloads for offensive security, penetration testing, and red teaming, covering every phase of an engagement.

  14. 17

    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.

  15. 18

    T3MP3ST

    6.6Kelder-plinius/T3MP3ST · TypeScript

    T3MP3ST is a multi-agent offensive-security framework that turns an AI coding agent you already use into an autonomous red-teaming operator. Point it at an authorized target and it runs the kill chain — recon, exploit, report — from a browser 'War Room' or the CLI.

  16. 19

    Decepticon

    6.3KBitterSecurity/Decepticon · Python

    Decepticon is a professional autonomous Red Team agent that runs full attack chains — reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and C2 — the way a real adversary would, instead of just scanning and printing a report.

  17. 20

    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.

  18. 21

    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.

  19. 22

    BEAR-C2

    703S3N4T0R-0X0/BEAR-C2 · Python

    BEAR-C2 is an adversary simulation and emulation framework for red team operations, built around real-world TTPs inspired by Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and Iranian APT groups.

  20. 23

    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.

  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.

  22. 25

    CVE-2026-62911

    187hypnguyen1209/CVE-2026-62911 · Python

    A proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-62911, a pre-auth RCE in Microsoft Exchange Server that relays an NTLM machine account hash to the MRSProxy service to drop and run an ASPX webshell, giving full SYSTEM access without any credentials.

  23. 26

    redStackPRO

    164devZero-Security/redStackPRO · Python

    redStackPRO is a web canvas for designing red team attack infrastructure and defensive Active Directory cyber ranges; you compose a topology visually, and it exports a ready-to-run Terraform and Ansible working directory that you deploy yourself.

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