Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Maltrail
Open Source Malicious Traffic Detection System
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maltrail launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Malwarebytes 3.0▲177A next-generation antivirus replacement
2016 · malwarebytes.com · its alternatives →
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Deploy tiny traps to detect hackers and breaches
2015 · canarytokens.org · its alternatives →
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Oui Bounce▲81An open source exit intent detection library
2014 · carlsednaoui.github.io · its alternatives →
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Real-time security reporting software
2015 · trackforce.com · its alternatives →
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BitCannon▲69A torrent index archiving, browsing, and backup tool
2015 · anlatted.in.net · its alternatives →
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Virusdie▲100Clean and protect your websites like a security expert
2016 · virusdie.com · its alternatives →
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Automated browser testing from the cloud
2014 · ghostinspector.com · its alternatives →
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A Community Approach to Fighting Cyber Threats
2017 · incubator.apache.org · its alternatives →
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2019 · viz.greynoise.io · its alternatives →
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Live extension analysis: Point us at a Chrome/Edge/Firefox extension (store URL or CRX). We spin up a safe sandbox and observe it in real time—permissions use, message passing, storage writes, network calls, remote code loading, and UI injections. Package scanning: Paste an npm/package URL or code. We do quick static + dynamic checks: install/postinstall scripts, obfuscation/eval, exfil endpoints, suspicious APIs, and typosquat/reputation signals. AI explainer: An LLM summarizes the behaviors and risk patterns in plain English (why it’s risky, what to verify,…
2025 · browsertotal.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · dnlongen.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built an automated system that tracks malicious Chrome/Edge extensions daily. The database updates automatically by monitoring chrome-stats for removed extensions and scanning security blogs. Currently tracking 1000+ known malicious extensions with extension IDs, names, and dates. I'm working on detection tools (GUI + CLI) to scan locally installed extensions against this database, but wanted to share the raw data first since maintained threat intelligence lists like this are hard to find. The automation runs 24/7 and pushes updates to GitHub. Free to use for research,…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a GitHub app that detects it in pull requests, notifies or blocks them. Alongside it, I published a Semgrep ruleset for any stage of the CI/CD. I started this after getting frustrated by all the FUD around malicious code - lots of noise, little effort to solve it. Having said that, it's still a major attack vector - a stored RCE, with the codebase itself as the sink. Feedback is appreciated. The app, PRevent - https://github.com/apiiro/PRevent The ruleset: https://github.com/apiiro/malicious-code-ruleset The research:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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