A Curated List of Awesome Honeypots
This is a work-in-progress curated list of honeypots. Feel free to contact me with any suggestions.
Page last updated 6 Dec 2025.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 713 35 updated 2 days ago
19 Customizable honeypots for monitoring network traffic, bots activities and username\password credentials (DNS, HTTP Proxy, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, POP3, IMAP, STMP, RDP, VNC, SMB, SOCKS5, Redis, TELNET, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Elastic and ldap) - honeypot 52 3 updated 10 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,292 47 updated today
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 8,525 215 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 782 43 updated 5 days ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 471 23 updated 1 week ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 500 50 updated 2 weeks ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 283 23 updated 2 months ago
- kippo_detect 59 6 updated 1 week ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 51 6 updated 2 months ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 93 5 updated 1 week ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 103 11 updated 1 week ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 1 week ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated 3 days ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 10 3 updated 4 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 269 11 updated 2 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,407 96 updated 1 day ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 9,938 389 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,701 77 updated 2 days ago
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 262 14 updated 2 days ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,002 122 updated 1 day ago
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,708 85 updated 1 day ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 5 months ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 310 15 updated 2 days ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 1 week ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 53 1 updated 1 week ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 664 28 updated 2 days ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 592 48 updated 2 days ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 473 31 updated 2 days ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 229 13 updated 2 days ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,072 28 updated 1 week ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 185 8 updated 1 week ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
