Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ShadowSecurityScanner
Security, Network, Vulnerability Scanner
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Your ultimate AI-powered ethical hacking assistant
2023 · copilot.bugbase.ai · its alternatives →
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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I noticed the growing security concerns around MCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192) and built an open source tool that can detect several patterns of tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels and cross-origin manipulations. MCP-Shield scans your installed servers (Cursor, Claude Desktop, etc.) and shows what each tool is trying to do at the instruction level, beyond just the API surface. It catches hidden instructions that try to read sensitive files, shadow other tools' behavior, or exfiltrate data. Example of what it detects: - Hidden instructions…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, TL;DR: We’ve launched a free version of our Shadow IT scanner to identify which SaaS apps are used in your company, who uses them, and if they have high-risk OAuth scopes. Philip and I went through YC with AccessOwl in 2022. We started the company because, in our previous roles, we struggled to track all the SaaS apps, users, and granted OAuth scopes. The Shadow IT scanner started as a small feature within AccessOwl, which manages SaaS vendors and user accounts centrally. But a standalone scanner would have made our lives so much easier in our previous roles. So, we thought, why not…
2024 · accessowl.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · recdnsfp.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I spent the past year building this in my spare time because I got tired of enterprise security tools that cost $50K/year and don't understand Linux. TheProtector is a comprehensive security monitoring tool that actually runs on the systems we use (Linux) instead of being a Windows-first afterthought. Built it entirely on a $500 laptop because I believe good security shouldn't require unlimited budgets. Features: - Real-time process, network, and file monitoring - YARA malware detection with custom rules - eBPF kernel monitoring (when available) - Behavioral baseline…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Online automated vulnerability scanner to secure firewalls, servers, web applications, and apis. Try 14 days for free.
2020 · hostedscan.com · its alternatives →
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A Smart and AI driven Web Vulnerability Scanner
2025 · thesmartscanner.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · picheta.me · its alternatives →
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Affordable darkweb and attack surface management for SMEs
Mar 2026 · securityscanner.ai · its alternatives →
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Pentest List▲61Discover the best penetration testing tools, security resources, and ethical hacking content. Community-driven platform for cybersecurity professionals.
2024 · pentestlist.com · its alternatives →
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Dastardly▲57A lightweight web app security scanner for your CI pipelines
2022 · portswigger.net · its alternatives →
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WraithScan▲10I'm an ex-StarCraft II pro who retired back in 2014 and have been developing since then. I made a free web app security platform for vibe coders and small businesses/startups. WraithScan (https://wraithscan.com) has a double meaning... as you can guess cloaked wraiths + comsat scanning but also is a web scanner for detecting attack vectors for your web app. Cloaked wraiths are seen as cheesy these days, right? Anyways, it tests for the following vulnerabilities: - SQL injection - XSS - Open redirects - Exposed .env / backup files - Misconfigured CORS - Misconfigured…
2025 · wraithscan.com · its alternatives →
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k8scan▲7Kubernetes security scanner with attack path analysis
Jul 2026 · k8scan.com · its alternatives →
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World's Largest Exploit Database
2023 · exploit.observer · 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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2017 · beta.secureit.io · its alternatives →
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We're open-sourcing Sighthound today, our rules-based static security scanner. What makes it special is that it's coded in rust and uses tree-sitter as it's AST making it very fast and easily extensible. Why build another scanner in 2026? We wanted to improve some of our detection outcomes but noticed the current open source scanners like Semgrep/Opengrep we're capped by a bunch of adoption limitations such as being written in OCaml, requiring a lot of work to add a language parser, and the rulesets were licensed differently and required paid offerings. It also felt that licensing was…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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R7 Vuln-Scanner — Discover the Weakness Before They Do.
Mar 2026 · gum.new · its alternatives →
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Your First Line of Defense, Powered by Gemini.
2025 · share.streamlit.io · its alternatives →
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TraceWarrior▲14Free network diagnostic tools for it professionals
2025 · tracewarrior.com · its alternatives →
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Find your app's critical vulnerabilities before attackers do
Jun 2026 · pentestr.up.railway.app · its alternatives →
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We are super excited to release the community edition of our product to help DevSecOps teams -- Deepfence ThreatMapper ! Deepfence is a unified platform to protect kubernetes, virtual machines and serverless workloads at runtime. We have packaged a subset of important features of the platform in this edition. Essentially, you can visualize kubernetes clusters, virtual machines and container images in real time and scan them for vulnerabilities. You can also scan an unlimited number of container images by integrating with popular registries. This community edition comes with batteries…
2020 · its alternatives →
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