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 11 Mar 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 825 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 1 year ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,296 47 updated 2 weeks ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 8,841 225 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 791 42 updated 2 days ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 478 23 updated 5 days ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 513 50 updated 1 day ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 282 23 updated 1 month ago
- kippo_detect 59 6 updated 3 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 54 6 updated 1 week ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 93 5 updated 3 months ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 103 11 updated 3 months ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 3 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 36 3 updated 5 days ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 10 3 updated 7 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 280 11 updated 3 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,435 98 updated 4 days ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,195 386 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,794 77 updated today
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 267 14 updated 1 day ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,222 120 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,712 85 updated 1 week ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 9 months ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 313 15 updated 4 weeks ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 3 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 54 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 671 28 updated 4 weeks ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 596 47 updated 4 days ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 477 30 updated 2 weeks ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 231 13 updated 2 weeks ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,078 28 updated 3 days ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 185 8 updated 3 months ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
