Awesome Hacker Search Engines
A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more
General • Servers • Vulnerabilities • Exploits • Attack surface • Code • Mail addresses • Domains • URLs • DNS • Certificates • WiFi networks • Device Info • Credentials • Leaks • Hidden Services • Social Networks • Phone numbers • Images • Threat Intelligence • Web History • Surveillance cameras • Crypto • People
General Search Engines
- Bing
- Yahoo!
- Yandex
- Ask
- Baidu
- You
- SearXNG
- EXALead
- DuckDuckGo
- Swisscows
- Naver
- AOL
- Brave
- Yep
- Gibiru
- Kagi
- Stract
Servers
- Shodan - Search Engine for the Internet of Everything
- Censys Search - Search Engine for every server on the Internet to reduce exposure and improve security
- Onyphe.io - Cyber Defense Search Engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data
- ZoomEye - Global cyberspace mapping
- GreyNoise - The source for understanding internet noise
- Natlas - Scaling Network Scanning
- Netlas.io - Discover, Research and Monitor any Assets Available Online
- FOFA - Cyberspace mapping
- Quake - Cyberspace surveying and mapping system
- Hunter - Internet Search Engines For Security Researchers
- ODIN - One of the most powerful search engines for Scanned Internet Assets
Vulnerabilities
- NIST NVD - US National Vulnerability Database
- MITRE CVE - Identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities
- GitHub Advisory Database - Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories
- cloudvulndb.org - The Open Cloud Vulnerability & Security Issue Database
- osv.dev - Open Source Vulnerabilities
- Vulners.com - Your Search Engine for Security Intelligence
- opencve.io - Easiest way to track CVE updates and be alerted about new vulnerabilities
- security.snyk.io - Open Source Vulnerability Database
- Mend Vulnerability Database - The largest open source vulnerability DB
- Rapid7 - DB - Vulnerability & Exploit Database
- CVEDetails - The ultimate security vulnerability datasource
- VulnIQ - Vulnerability intelligence and management solution
- SynapsInt - The unified OSINT research tool
- Aqua Vulnerability Database - Vulnerabilities and weaknesses in open source applications and cloud native infrastructure
- Vulmon - Vulnerability and exploit search engine
- VulDB - Number one vulnerability database
- ScanFactory - Realtime Security Monitoring
- Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative - Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities discovered by Zero Day Initiative researchers
- Google Project Zero - Vulnerabilities including Zero Days
- Trickest CVE Repository - Gather and update all available and newest CVEs with their PoC
- cnvd.org.cn - Chinese National Vulnerability Database
- InTheWild.io - Check CVEs in our free, open source feed of exploited vulnerabilities
- Vulnerability Lab - Vulnerability research, bug bounties and vulnerability assessments
- Red Hat Security Advisories - Information about security flaws that affect Red Hat products and services in the form of security advisories
- Cisco Security Advisories - Security advisories and vulnerability information for Cisco products, including network equipment and software
- Microsoft Security Response Center - Reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services
- VARIoT - VARIoT IoT Vulnerabilities Database
Exploits
- Exploit-DB - Exploit Database
- Sploitus - Convenient central place for identifying the newest exploits
- Rapid7 - DB - Vulnerability & Exploit Database
- Vulmon - Vulnerability and exploit search engine
- packetstormsecurity.com - Information Security Services, News, Files, Tools, Exploits, Advisories and Whitepapers
- 0day.today - Ultimate database of exploits and vulnerabilities
- LOLBAS - Living Off The Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries
- GTFOBins - Curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems
- Payloads All The Things - A list of useful payloads and bypasses for Web Application Security
- XSS Payloads - The wonderland of JavaScript unexpected usages, and more
- exploitalert.com - Database of Exploits
- Reverse Shell generator - Online Reverse Shell generator with Local Storage functionality, URI & Base64 Encoding, MSFVenom Generator, and Raw Mode
- HackerOne hacktivity - See the latest hacker activity on HackerOne
- Bugcrowd Crowdstream - Showcase of accepted and disclosed submissions on Bugcrowd programs
- GTFOArgs - Curated list of Unix binaries that can be manipulated for argument injection
- shell-storm.org/shellcode - Shellcodes database for study cases
- Hacking the Cloud - Encyclopedia of the attacks/tactics/techniques that offensive security professionals can use on their next cloud exploitation adventure
- LOLDrivers - Open-source project that brings together vulnerable, malicious, and known malicious Windows drivers
- PwnWiki - Collection of TTPs (tools, tactics, and procedures) for what to do after access has been gained
- CVExploits Search - Your comprehensive database for CVE exploits from across the internet
- VARIoT - VARIoT IoT exploits database
- LOOBins - Detailed information on various built-in macOS binaries and how they can be used by threat actors for malicious purposes
- Coalition Exploit Scoring System - Model that dynamically scores new and existing vulnerabilities to reflect their exploit likelihood
- WADComs - Interactive cheat sheet containing a curated list of offensive security tools and their respective commands to be used against Windows/AD environments
- LOLAPPS - Compendium of applications that can be used to carry out day-to-day exploitation
- Living off the Hardware - Resource collection that provides guidance on identifying and utilizing malicious hardware and malicious devices
- Living Off the Pipeline - How development tools commonly used in CI/CD pipelines can be used to achieve arbitrary code execution
- hackyx.io - The aim of this project is to easily find any resource related to IT security like CTF writeups, articles or Bug Bounty reports
- exploit.observer - The World's Largest Exploit & Vulnerability Intelligence Database and is freely accessible to all
Attack Surface
- FullHunt.io - Attack surface database of the entire Internet
- BinaryEdge - We scan the web and gather data for you
- Censys ASM - Attack Surface Management Solutions
- RedHunt Labs - Discover your Attack Surface, Continuously
- SecurityTrails - The Total Internet Inventory
- overcast-security.com - We make tracking your external attack surface easy
- IPInfo.io - The trusted source for IP address data
- IPData.co - IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API
- NetworksDB - Information about the public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, networks and domains owned by companies and organisations across the world
- ASNlookup - Quickly lookup updated information about specific Autonomous System Number (ASN), Organization, CIDR, or registered IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) among other relevant data
- BGPtools - Browse the Internet ecosystem
- BGPview - Debug and investigate information about IP addresses, ASN, IXs, BGP, ISPs, Prefixes and Domain names
- BigDataCloud - The API provides comprehensive location and network data
- RADb - The world's largest public routing registry
- Deepinfo - Empower your security with the most comprehensive Internet data
- CloudFlare Radar - Global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends and insights
Code
- GitHub Code Search - Search globally across all of GitHub, or scope your search to a particular repository or organization
- GitLab Code Search - Advanced search for faster, more efficient search across the entire GitLab instance
- Sourceforge - Complete Open-Source and Business Software Platform
- grep.app - Search across a half million git repos
- publicwww.com - Find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages HTML, JS and CSS code
- SearchCode - Search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
- NerdyData - Find companies based on their website's tech stack or code
- RepoSearch - Source code search engine that helps you find implementation details, example usages or just analyze code
- SourceGraph - Understand and search across your entire codebase
- HotExamples - Search code examples from over 1 million projects
- WP Directory - Lightning fast regex searching of code in the WordPress Plugin and Theme Directories
- GitHub Gists - Instantly share code, notes, and snippets
- CodeBerg - Collaboration platform and Git hosting for free and open source software, content and projects
- Fedora Pagure - Open Source software code hosting system
- LaunchPad - Software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking, Code hosting, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations...
- repo.or.cz - Public Git hosting site
- gitorious.org - Read-only mirror of the former gitorious.org code hosting website
- Sourcehut - Collection of tools useful for software development
- android.googlesource.com - Git repositories on android
- deps.dev - Service developed and hosted by Google to help developers better understand the structure, construction, and security of open source software packages
- WebFinery - Search the source code of the web
- Google Code Archive - Data found on the Google Code Project Hosting Service, which was turned down in early 2016
- Snipplr - Code snippet search engine that allows users to search and share code snippets across various programming languages and frameworks
- Postman Public Collections - Explore the best APIs, collections, workspaces in the world on the Postman Public API Network
- ScriptMafia - Download full nulled scripts
- SearchFTPs - The most advanced FTP Search Engine service maintained by members
- Ecosyste.ms - An open API service providing package, version and dependency metadata of many open source software ecosystems and registries
- SwaggerHub - Search public APIs and Domains in SwaggerHub
Mail Addresses
- Hunter.io - Find professional email addresses in seconds
- PhoneBook - Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
- IntelligenceX - Search engine and data archive
- Reacher.email - Open-Source Email Verification
- RocketReach - Your first-degree connection to any professional
- email-format.com - Find the email address formats in use at thousands of companies
- EmailHippo - Email address verification technology
- ThatsThem - Reverse email lookup
- verify-email.org - Checks whether the mailbox