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 16 Nov 2025.
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All-in-one
- chameleon 710 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 52 3 updated 9 months ago
Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP) - honeytrap 1,284 47 updated 1 week ago
Advanced Honeypot framework. - tpotce 8,463 212 updated today
🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝 - dionaea 780 43 updated 2 days ago
Home of the dionaea honeypot - Python-Honeypot 469 23 updated 5 days ago
OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework. - dshield 498 50 updated 1 week ago
DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor
Counter-Honeypots
- HoneypotBuster 283 23 updated 1 month 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 4 weeks ago
Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot - MongoDB-HoneyProxy 92 5 updated 1 year ago
A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server. - nosqlpot 102 11 updated 1 month ago
The NoSQL Honeypot Framework - pghoney 19 1 updated 9 months ago
Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot - mysql-honeypotd 36 3 updated 2 weeks 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 1 day ago
An SMTP Honeypot
Other
- conpot 1,401 96 updated 2 weeks ago
ICS/SCADA honeypot - awesome-honeypots 9,846 389 updated 1 day ago
an awesome list of honeypot resources - opencanary 2,680 78 updated today
Modular and decentralised honeypot - bluepot 263 13 updated 1 week ago
Bluetooth Honeypot
SSH
- cowrie 5,972 121 updated 1 day ago
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/ - kippo 1,706 84 updated 1 week ago
Kippo - SSH Honeypot - SecureHoney 24 7 updated 5 months ago
SSH honeypot written in C
Telnet
- telnet-iot-honeypot 309 15 updated 2 weeks ago
Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries - hontel 162 9 updated 3 months ago
Telnet Honeypot
Web
- honeyhttpd 52 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 666 28 updated 2 weeks ago
Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords. - glastopf 589 48 updated 1 week ago
Web Application Honeypot - snare 472 31 updated 1 week ago
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot - tanner 229 13 updated 3 weeks ago
He who flays the hide - django-admin-honeypot 1,069 28 updated 5 days ago
:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page. - wordpot 184 8 updated 4 days ago
A Wordpress Honeypot
