Security & Vulnerability Detection, ranked by momentum

What’s trending in Security & Vulnerability Detection: the projects accelerating fastest right now — ranked by how quickly their growth is speeding up, not by how many stars they already have.

44 tracked projects · updated daily · 1 Oct 2026

#ScoreProjectAcceleratingStars

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cilium/ciliumeBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

+24.125.5k 290

caddyserver/caddyFast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

+4.076.1k 384

projectdiscovery/nucleiNuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

+6.731.5k 481

KeygraphHQ/shannonShannon is an AI pentester for web applications and APIs. It analyzes your source code, identifies attack vectors, and executes real exploits to prove vulnerabilities before they reach production.

+5.948.4k 580

swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThingsA list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

+12.381.2k 678

ImranR98/ObtainiumGet Android app updates straight from the source.

+6.419.9k 777

chaitin/SafeLineSafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

+2.422.7k 875

Atlas-OS/Atlas🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.

+4.021.6k 972

keepassxreboot/keepassxcKeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

+1.628.9k 1072

rizinorg/cutterFree and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

+4.119.8k 1169

hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpnSet up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Alpine Linux and Raspberry Pi OS. Includes client config and management scripts.

+2.428.6k 1268

radareorg/radare2UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

+0.624.9k 1367

GyulyVGC/sniffnetComfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️

+1.341.2k 1466

zinja-coder/jadx-ai-mcpPlugin for JADX to integrate MCP server

+0.62.8k 1562

aquasecurity/trivyFind vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

-0.138.1k 1658

OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contractsOpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development.

+0.927.3k 1757

bee-san/RustScan🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

+0.120.5k 1856

nginx/nginxThe official NGINX Open Source repository.

-0.131.7k 1956

StevenBlack/hosts🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

+0.431.1k 2048

NVIDIA/SkillSpectorSecurity scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chain risks in Claude Code, Codex, and MCP skills before you install them.

-22.018.2k 2148

community-scripts/ProxmoxVEProxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)

-2.429.7k 2247

x64dbg/x64dbgAn open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

-1.049.6k 2347

TecharoHQ/anubisWeighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

-1.022.6k 2445

goauthentik/authentikThe authentication glue you need.

-9.925.7k 2544

tirth8205/code-review-graphLocal-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI. Builds a persistent map of your codebase so AI coding tools read only what matters, with benchmarked context reductions on reviews and large-repo workflows.

-2.631.8k

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What counts as Security & Vulnerability Detection here

Tools for finding, analyzing, and remediating security vulnerabilities in code and applications. This page lists only projects whose primary category is Security & Vulnerability Detection; projects that merely connect to it are listed under Related projects below. Rankings cover the 1017 repositories Breakwave tracks, not all of GitHub.

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