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A honeypot is a deliberately exposed decoy system, service, account, or data store designed to attract unauthorized activity. It imitates a target attackers may probe, allowing defenders to record commands, malware, credentials, and techniques while keeping the interaction separate from production systems. A low-interaction honeypot emulates limited services; a high-interaction honeypot provides a more realistic environment but requires tighter isolation and monitoring.
Honeypot alerts can be valuable because legitimate users normally should not interact with the decoy, making activity useful for detection and threat intelligence. However, a compromised or poorly isolated honeypot can become a platform for attacking other systems, so network segmentation, restricted outbound access, logging, and rapid reset procedures are essential. Collected data may include personal information or attacker-controlled content, creating privacy, retention, and legal concerns. Honeypots supplement—not replace—vulnerability management and controls protecting production assets.
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Honeypot Records Exploitation Attempt Against Flaw Patched Earlier This YearProgress Software has issued a security alert to all organizations using self-managed instances of its ShareFile Storage Zone Controller, advising them to immediately power down their servers in light of a "credible external security threat" to their data.
Attackers rapidly exploited a critical Oracle WebLogic RCE flaw the same day exploit code was released, according to a CloudSEK honeypot study
AI-generated code can introduce subtle security flaws when teams over-trust automated output. Intruder shows how an AI-written honeypot introduced hidden vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks. [...]
The internet never stays quiet. Every week, new hacks, scams, and security problems show up somewhere
Targeted Threat Intel Firm Shares Details With Police After Honeypot HitGetting owned by deception technology isn't good news for one's criminal brand or ability to remain at large. Just ask the band of young hackers behind "Scattered Lapsus$ Shiny Hunters," when one of their ilk fell into a security firm's honeytrap, revealing his actual IP address in the process.
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, also known as ShinyHunters, were drawn in using a realistic, yet mostly fake, dataset.
Subpoena issued to former ShinyHunters member Resecurity offered its "congratulations" to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters cybercrime crew for falling into its threat intel team's honeypot – resulting in a subpoena being issued for one of the data thieves. Meanwhile, the notorious extortionists have since removed their claims of gaining "full access" to the security shop's systems.…
The ShinyHunters hacking group claims it breached the systems of cybersecurity firm Resecurity and stole internal data, while Resecurity says the attackers only accessed a deliberately deployed honeypot containing fake information used to monitor their activity. [...]
The ShinyHunters hacking group claims it breached the systems of cybersecurity firm Resecurity and stole internal data, while Resecurity says the attackers only accessed a deliberately deployed honeypot containing fake information used to monitor their activity. [...]
Today's Hapless Hackers Are Tomorrow's Threat, Warns ForescoutA pro-Russian hacktivist group boasted on Telegram that it hacked a Western water treatment plant - but actually succeeded in attacking a honeypot left by security researchers at Forescout, the firm said. TwoNet appears to have ceased operations on Sept. 30.
Today's Hapless Hackers Are Tomorrow's Threat, Warns ForescoutA pro-Russian hacktivist group boasted on Telegram that it hacked a Western water treatment plant - but actually succeeded in attacking a honeypot left by security researchers at Forescout, the firm said. TwoNet appears to have ceased operations on Sept. 30.
Forescout said that the TwoNet actor was lured into attacking a honeypot disguised as a water treatment utility, providing insights into the group’s tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a threat actor codenamed ViciousTrap has compromised nearly 5,300 unique network edge devices across 84 countries and turned them into a honeypot-like network
Wallarm honeypot research finds potentially exposed APIs are being discovered within half a minute
Also: Honeypot 'Jinn Ransomware,' Patch Tuesday and At Risk SectorsThis week, Researchers say Fortinet didn't fully patch FortiJump, "Jinn Ransomware" was a set up, Microsoft Patch Tuesday and a Moody's warning over at-risk sectors. Also, a debt servicing firm breach, a DemandScience breach and a malicious tool targetint GitHub users.
Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them. [...]
A vendor honeypot caught two attacks intended to leverage the tens of thousands of exposed Selenium Grid Web app testing servers.
The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure
Analyzing Mallox samples, Sekoia identified two distinct affiliates using different approaches