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 1 Nov 2025.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 708 35 updated today
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 9 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,283 47 updated 5 days ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 8,409 212 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 777 43 updated 1 week ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 469 23 updated 1 day ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 496 50 updated 3 days ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 283 23 updated 3 weeks ago
- kippo_detect 58 6 updated 3 months ago
Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally
Database
- pg-server 51 6 updated 2 weeks ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 92 5 updated 12 months ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 102 11 updated 3 weeks ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 19 1 updated 9 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 36 3 updated 1 week ago
Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C
- hermes 10 3 updated 3 months ago
SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server - mailoney 268 11 updated 3 weeks ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,398 96 updated 1 day ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 9,796 389 updated today
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,658 78 updated today
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 262 13 updated 1 day ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 5,953 121 updated today
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,704 84 updated today
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 4 months ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 309 15 updated 2 days ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 162 9 updated 3 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 52 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 666 28 updated 2 days ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 587 48 updated 5 days ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 471 31 updated 6 days ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 229 13 updated 6 days ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,068 28 updated 1 week ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 183 8 updated today
A Wordpress Honeypot
