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 Aug 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 839 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 3 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,302 47 updated 1 day ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 9,390 226 updated 1 day ago
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 809 42 updated 1 day ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 482 23 updated 1 week ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 525 50 updated 1 day ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 280 23 updated 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 8 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated 1 day 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 3 days ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,503 99 updated 4 days ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,499 380 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,969 77 updated 1 day ago
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 277 14 updated 2 weeks ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,483 114 updated 1 day ago
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,712 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 4 weeks ago
HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services. - ssh-honeypot 676 29 updated 1 week ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 599 47 updated 2 weeks ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 481 30 updated 5 days ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 232 13 updated 3 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 188 8 updated 1 week ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
