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 22 Nov 2025.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 710 35 updated 1 day 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 1,286 47 updated today
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 8,480 213 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 781 43 updated 1 day ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 469 23 updated 1 week ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 499 50 updated 5 days ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 283 23 updated 1 month ago
- kippo_detect 58 6 updated 4 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 51 6 updated 1 month ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 92 5 updated 1 year ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 102 11 updated 1 month ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 19 1 updated 10 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 36 3 updated 1 day ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 10 3 updated 3 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 269 11 updated today
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,402 96 updated 4 days ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 9,873 389 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,688 78 updated today
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 263 13 updated 2 weeks ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 5,982 121 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,707 84 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 1 day ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 162 9 updated 4 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 52 1 updated 4 weeks ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 666 28 updated 3 weeks ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 589 48 updated 2 weeks ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 473 31 updated 4 days ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 229 13 updated 2 days ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,070 28 updated today
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 184 8 updated 1 week ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
