Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RanSim
100% harmless simulation of a real ransomware infection
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RanSim launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RansomFree▲15Free ransomware protection using behavioral AI technology
2016 · cybereason.com · its alternatives →
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Cyber Pulse▲154Cyber Breaches, Ransomware, Vulnerabilities & Research
2024 · app.overwatchdata.io · its alternatives →
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Malwarebytes 3.0▲177A next-generation antivirus replacement
2016 · malwarebytes.com · its alternatives →
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A very entertaining story about cybercrime from both perspe…
2015 · radiolab.org · its alternatives →
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2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cut and Hack▲55The worlds first choice-driven abstract hacking simulator
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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What are the chances of your company being hacked for ransom
2021 · securities.outgrow.us · its alternatives →
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ThreatStream▲60Real-time intelligence to defend a network from cyber threat
2014 · anomali.com · its alternatives →
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Cyberstorm▲55A full scale cyber attack against present-day New York
2016 · matthewmather.com · its alternatives →
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Static analysis tool that detects potential ransomware in PE and ELF files through heuristic analysis - seekbytes/MicroSCOPE
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A "TouchID" and Ransomware protection USB drive
2016 · biom.io · its alternatives →
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New ways of breaking app-integrated LLMs . Contribute to greshake/llm-security development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fensivo▲4Human risk management that learns from every signal
Jul 2026 · fensivo.co · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! Deploying the next-generation of security telemetry technologies to production is hard, so I’m building Impulse, a fully automated XDR platform that leverages tools like Osquery and eBPF to provide real-time threat detection & integrity monitoring for servers and workstations. It detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. Impulse agents can be deployed on any device or VM running Linux such as cloud VMs in VPC networks, VPS servers or personal workstations and IoTs. In terms architecture, it is organised around…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an open-source malware detection daemon that monitors all running processes in real-time using ML + heuristics. No kernel modules or eBPF required. Key points: - Polls /proc for new processes (works on any Linux kernel 2.6+) - Random Forest model trained on EMBER 2018 dataset (2.3M samples) - Heuristic rules for crypto miners, ransomware, rootkits - ~20MB RAM, <1% CPU, sub-millisecond scan latency - Pure C, zero runtime dependencies - Model embedded directly in binary (50KB) Why I built this: Existing solutions either require modern kernels (eBPF) or are heavy/proprietary.…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Static analysis tool that detects potential ransomware in PE and ELF files through heuristic analysis - seekbytes/MicroSCOPE
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The world’s first fully cognitive anti-malware system
2016 · avathon.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Secure Operating System for embedded connected systems
2017 · os.kaspersky.com · its alternatives →
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Coding agents craft arbitrary code so securing them is more complicated than red-teaming. We post trained a cyber-security small llm, changed how it reasons and supplemented our controls using program analysis techniques such as inline reference monitoring to outperform GPT5.5-xhigh on hard benchmarks like LinuxArena and SleightBench. Free product available at harden.run and full benchmarks in the blog post.
Aug 2026 · harden.run · its alternatives →
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12 Anti-Virus Engines in One Lightweight & Free Application
2016 · secureage.com · its alternatives →
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PwnScan▲8For at least a few years (since before COVID), in my circle everbody wants an AI tool that finds vulnerabilities in binaries. I have my reservations about such a tool because of my perception that AI is overhyped, so I decided to build one myself to see how useful it could be (or not). I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for my collection of binaries with known CVEs. It definitely has false positives and negatives, as any static analysis tool would, but I think its actually somewhat usable. I dont think the results are super actionable, but interesting nonetheless. I still…
2025 · pwnscan.com · its alternatives →
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