Awesome Black Hat Arsenal

🚀 A curated list of cutting-edge cybersecurity tools showcased at the Black Hat Arsenal events — covering offensive, defensive, and research-focused security utilities.

Whether you're in red teaming, blue teaming, appsec, or OSINT — this list helps you explore and leverage the best tools demonstrated live by security professionals across the world.

Contents

• How This List Is Organized
• Browse
• Locations
  • Asia
  • Canada
  • Europe
  • MEA
  • USA
• Data
• Contributing

How This List Is Organized

• Tools are grouped by the location of the Black Hat event (USA, Europe, Asia, Canada, MEA), then by year.
• Each year has its own page where tools are grouped by track category, with description, speakers and repository link.
• Two cross-event indexes let you browse the whole collection by track or by name.

Browse

• 🔎 Search — filter every tool by name, speaker, region, year and track
• 🗂️ All tools by track — the 20 Arsenal tracks, every event
• 🔤 All tools A–Z — one line per tool, with every event it was presented at

Locations

Asia (363 tools)

• 2015 — 12 tools
• 2016 — 18 tools
• 2017 — 16 tools
• 2018 — 23 tools
• 2019 — 23 tools
• 2020 — 26 tools
• 2021 — 22 tools
• 2022 — 22 tools
• 2023 — 43 tools
• 2024 — 58 tools
• 2025 — 51 tools
• 2026 — 49 tools

Canada (98 tools)

• 2023 — 30 tools
• 2024 — 33 tools
• 2025 — 35 tools

Europe (474 tools)

• 2014 — 12 tools
• 2015 — 31 tools
• 2016 — 33 tools
• 2017 — 37 tools
• 2018 — 38 tools
• 2019 — 38 tools
• 2020 — 23 tools
• 2021 — 41 tools
• 2022 — 37 tools
• 2023 — 61 tools
• 2024 — 64 tools
• 2025 — 59 tools

MEA (37 tools)

• 2024 — 18 tools
• 2025 — 19 tools

USA (1126 tools)

• 2013 — 48 tools
• 2014 — 54 tools
• 2015 — 58 tools
• 2016 — 91 tools
• 2017 — 87 tools
• 2018 — 89 tools
• 2019 — 91 tools
• 2020 — 51 tools
• 2021 — 64 tools
• 2022 — 83 tools
• 2023 — 90 tools
• 2024 — 93 tools
• 2025 — 126 tools
• 2026 — 101 tools

Data

The whole list is available as tools.json and tools.csv (2098 rows: name, description, URL, tracks, speakers, year, location). Both are regenerated from the per-tool JSON files under tools/ — treat them as read-only.

Contributing

We welcome community contributions to make this list better!

• 📁 Each tool is one JSON file at tools/{LOCATION}/{YEAR}/<tool-name-slug>.json with: Tool Name, Description, GitHub URL (if available), Tracks, Speakers.
• 📝 Follow CONTRIBUTING.md for the format and the list of valid track names.
• ✅ Run python3 scripts/normalize.py, python3 scripts/validate.py (must report 0 errors) and python3 AutoReadme.py (regenerates every README, index and data file), then open a pull request.

⚠️ All README files, the indexes and tools.json/tools.csv are generated — edit the JSON files, not these.