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 5 Oct 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 843 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 53 3 updated 5 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,313 47 updated 5 days ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 9,560 233 updated 1 day ago
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 819 42 updated 3 weeks ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 484 23 updated 2 weeks ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 531 50 updated 2 days ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 279 23 updated 3 weeks ago
- kippo_detect 60 6 updated 6 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 56 6 updated 2 weeks ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 92 5 updated 1 month ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 104 11 updated 3 months ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 10 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated 1 week ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 11 3 updated 5 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 284 11 updated 4 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,532 96 updated 3 days ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,582 377 updated 1 day ago
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 3,052 76 updated 1 day ago
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 279 14 updated 1 month ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,577 113 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,714 85 updated 1 week ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 1 year ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 313 15 updated 2 months ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 5 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 55 1 updated 3 months ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 673 29 updated 3 days ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 604 47 updated 1 week ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 484 30 updated 1 week ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 232 13 updated 2 weeks ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,082 28 updated 1 day ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 189 8 updated 2 months ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
