Most-starred security repositories

Name: Most-starred security repositories — snapshot history
Creator: Top10Earth

Ranked by Stars · 50 ranked · updated 2026-10-28

Ranking by Stars
#	Name	Stars	Change
1	trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge	254.0k stars	new
2	Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking	123.9k stars	new
3	Developer-Y/cs-video-courses	84.2k stars	new
4	swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings	82.2k stars	new
5	caddyserver/caddy	78.5k stars	new
6	usestrix/strix	72.6k stars	new
7	KeygraphHQ/shannon	50.1k stars	new
8	x64dbg/x64dbg	50.1k stars	new
9	mitmproxy/mitmproxy	46.5k stars	new
10	GyulyVGC/sniffnet	41.7k stars	new

Show positions 11–50

11	The-Vibe-Company/quivr	39.6k stars	new
12	aquasecurity/trivy	38.8k stars	new
13	lissy93/web-check	35.3k stars	new
14	mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills	35.2k stars	new
15	OWASP/CheatSheetSeries	33.8k stars	new
16	projectdiscovery/nuclei	32.4k stars	new
17	nginx/nginx	32.0k stars	new
18	imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server	32.0k stars	new
19	StevenBlack/hosts	31.3k stars	new
20	gitleaks/gitleaks	30.5k stars	new
21	trailofbits/algo	30.4k stars	new
22	Infisical/infisical	30.1k stars	new
23	community-scripts/ProxmoxVE	30.0k stars	new
24	keepassxreboot/keepassxc	29.6k stars	new
25	authelia/authelia	29.4k stars	new
26	hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn	28.9k stars	new
27	trufflesecurity/trufflehog	28.8k stars	new
28	digitalocean/nginxconfig.io	28.3k stars	new
29	OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts	27.3k stars	new
30	goauthentik/authentik	26.2k stars	new
31	cilium/cilium	25.7k stars	new
32	radareorg/radare2	25.2k stars	new
33	TecharoHQ/anubis	23.8k stars	new
34	osquery/osquery	23.7k stars	new
35	getsops/sops	23.5k stars	new
36	slimtoolkit/slim	23.5k stars	new
37	shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist	23.3k stars	new
38	chaitin/SafeLine	23.1k stars	new
39	lissy93/personal-security-checklist	22.7k stars	new
40	drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide	22.6k stars	new
41	twpayne/chezmoi	22.1k stars	new
42	matomo-org/matomo	22.0k stars	new
43	Atlas-OS/Atlas	21.9k stars	new
44	FallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers	21.1k stars	new
45	gravitational/teleport	21.0k stars	new
46	ImranR98/Obtainium	21.0k stars	new
47	bee-san/RustScan	20.6k stars	new
48	bettercap/bettercap	20.2k stars	new
49	eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT	20.2k stars	new
50	rizinorg/cutter	20.1k stars	new

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Rank history

Positions of today's top 10 across every published snapshot.

History appears once this list has at least two published snapshots.

What changed

How this ranking is made

Measure: Stars (stars): Total GitHub stars on repositories tagged with the "security" topic, from the GitHub search API sorted by stars.
Source: GitHub — Star counts from the GitHub API. (terms)
Fetched: 2026-10-28 21:36 UTC
Caveat: Topics are self-assigned by maintainers; untagged projects do not appear.

Every snapshot is kept; corrections are published as new snapshots and labelled. Nothing on this page is estimated or generated.