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 26 Aug 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 838 35 updated 1 week 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 53 3 updated 4 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,307 47 updated today
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 9,443 226 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 817 42 updated today
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 482 23 updated 2 days ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 527 50 updated 2 days ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 280 23 updated 4 weeks ago
- kippo_detect 60 6 updated 5 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 55 6 updated 4 months ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 92 5 updated today
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 104 11 updated 1 month ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 9 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated 4 days ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 11 3 updated 4 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 284 11 updated 3 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,519 99 updated today
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,535 378 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 3,003 77 updated today
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 278 14 updated 2 days ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,504 115 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,715 85 updated today
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 1 year ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 313 15 updated 5 days ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 4 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 55 1 updated 2 months ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 677 29 updated today
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 603 47 updated 2 days ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 481 30 updated 4 weeks ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 231 13 updated 1 week ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,085 28 updated 1 month ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 189 8 updated 3 weeks ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
