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 10 Aug 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 839 35 updated 5 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 53 3 updated 3 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,304 47 updated 3 days ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 9,402 226 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 813 42 updated 1 day ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 482 23 updated 2 weeks ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 526 50 updated 1 day ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 280 23 updated 2 weeks ago
- kippo_detect 60 6 updated 4 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 91 5 updated 2 weeks ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 104 11 updated 4 weeks ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 9 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated 5 days ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 11 3 updated 3 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 284 11 updated 1 week ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,506 99 updated 2 days ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,507 379 updated 1 day ago
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,979 77 updated 1 day ago
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 277 14 updated 3 weeks ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,488 114 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,714 85 updated 1 day ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 1 year ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 314 15 updated 2 months ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 3 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 55 1 updated 1 month ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 675 29 updated 4 days ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 601 47 updated 3 days ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 481 30 updated 1 week ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 232 13 updated 4 weeks ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,085 28 updated 3 weeks ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 189 8 updated 3 days ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
