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Sift
Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira

Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows …

CrowdSec
Bot detection arrives in CrowdSec 1.8.0, along with two DoS fixes

Failed SSH logins pile up in an auth log, and a scanner walks a website looking for exposed admin paths. CrowdSec reads log sources and HTTP requests, works out which …

Debian
Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary

A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through August 28, and …

Halo-record
Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents

Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data access, approvals. Each …

Gitea
Critical Gitea vulnerability now exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-60004)

Attackers have begun exploiting CVE-2026-60004, a critical code injection vulnerability in the Gitea Git platform, CISA confirmed on Tuesday by adding the vulnerability to its …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026

Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …

HOL Guard
HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents

HOL Guard is a tool that sits between an AI assistant and the computer it runs on. Its core local runtime is free and open source. When the assistant tries something risky, …

Google HEIR
Google’s open-source HEIR lets AI work with data it can’t see

Google’s researchers and engineers developed the Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation (HEIR) compiler project, an open-source compiler toolchain and development …

Hazmat
Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents

Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor …

LiteLLM
153GB of stolen credentials surface after LiteLLM supply chain attack

A massive 153GB archive stolen during the LiteLLM supply chain attack exposes credentials and other sensitive data linked to thousands of corporate domains, including AWS, …

Wireshark
Wireshark 4.6.8 patches 28 security bugs, nine in file parsers

Wireshark 4.6.8 fixes 28 security bugs in the protocol analyzer, and nine of them fire when someone opens a saved capture file. Those nine sit in file parsers, the code that …

PentestGPT
PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework

PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon, then exploit, then …

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