diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/ssb/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/ssb/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 725f72e6c7cf..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/security/ssb/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildGoModule
-, fetchFromGitHub
-}:
-
-buildGoModule rec {
-  pname = "ssb";
-  version = "0.1.1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "kitabisa";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0dkd02l30461cwn5hsssnjyb9s8ww179wll3l7z5hy1hv3x6h9g1";
-  };
-
-  vendorHash = null;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Tool to bruteforce SSH server";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/kitabisa/ssb";
-    license = with licenses; [ asl20 ];
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fab ];
-    broken = true; # vendor isn't reproducible with go > 1.17: nix-build -A $name.goModules --check
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 5a3ba5c3a605..f9583cb8c21e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   spotify-unwrapped = spotify; # added 2022-11-06
   spring-boot = spring-boot-cli; # added 2020-04-24
   squid4 = throw "'squid4' has been renamed to/replaced by 'squid'"; # Converted to throw 2023-09-10
+  ssb = throw "'ssb' has been removed, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2023-12-21
   ssm-agent = amazon-ssm-agent; # Added 2023-10-17
   starboard-octant-plugin = throw "starboard-octant-plugin has been dropped due to needing octant which is archived"; # Added 2023-09-29
   steam-run-native = steam-run; # added 2022-02-21
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bb25cff7c785..310c5e7d8af9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13586,8 +13586,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   svu = callPackage ../tools/misc/svu { };
 
-  ssb = callPackage ../tools/security/ssb { };
-
   ssb-patchwork = callPackage ../applications/networking/ssb-patchwork { };
 
   ssdeep = callPackage ../tools/security/ssdeep { };