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Suspicion of sudden open source red team tools from new accounts

April 4, 2026r/redteamsec

In r/redteamsec, skepticism is rising about flashy open source offensive tools posted by brand new accounts, pushing teams to treat unknown GitHub projects as potential supply chain risk before adoption.

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nice try... too many of thes "cool" tools apparating out of nowhere from 6 day old accounts

GitHub - frkngksl/SilentNimvest: Nim implementation for sud0Ru's Credential Dumping from SAM/SECURITY Hives Method (a.k.a. SilentHarvest)

Metatron -AI PENETRATION TESTING ASSISTANT (open source) METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux

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r/redteamsec

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open sourcesupply chaingithubopen sourcelocal llm

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