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 Jun 2026.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 835 35 updated 1 week 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 1 month ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,300 47 updated 1 week ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 9,264 230 updated 1 day ago
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 803 42 updated 1 day ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 480 23 updated 1 week ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 521 50 updated 2 weeks ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 281 23 updated 2 months ago
- kippo_detect 60 6 updated 2 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 55 6 updated 2 months ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 93 5 updated 6 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 6 months ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 20 1 updated 6 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 37 3 updated today
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 11 3 updated 1 month ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 282 11 updated 2 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,480 99 updated 1 day ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 10,326 381 updated 1 day ago
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,883 76 updated 1 day ago
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 272 14 updated 3 weeks ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 6,391 115 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,713 85 updated 1 week ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 11 months ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 314 15 updated 1 month ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 163 9 updated 1 month ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 54 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 675 29 updated 2 days ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 597 47 updated 2 weeks ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 479 30 updated 2 weeks ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 230 13 updated 2 weeks ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,082 28 updated 1 week ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 185 8 updated 4 weeks ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
