Latest Honeypot news

SolarWinds Serv-U path traversal flaw actively exploited in attacks

Threat actors are actively exploiting a SolarWinds Serv-U path-traversal vulnerability, leveraging publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits.
- Bill Toulas
- June 20, 2024
- 11:45 AM
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RDP honeypot targeted 3.5 million times in brute-force attacks

Remote desktop connections are so powerful a magnet for hackers that an exposed connection can average more than 37,000 times every day from various IP addresses.
- Ionut Ilascu
- June 13, 2023
- 03:38 AM
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UK creates fake DDoS-for-hire sites to identify cybercriminals

The U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed today that they created multiple fake DDoS-for-hire service websites to identify cybercriminals who utilize these platforms to attack organizations.
- Bill Toulas
- March 24, 2023
- 12:35 PM
- 0
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Lessons Learned from the Windows Remote Desktop Honeypot Report

Over several weeks in October of 2022, Specops collected 4.6 million attempted passwords on their Windows Remote Desktop honeypot system. Here is what they learned.
- Sponsored by Specops Software
- January 25, 2023
- 10:06 AM
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Honeypot experiment reveals what hackers want from IoT devices

A three-year-long honeypot experiment featuring simulated low-interaction IoT devices of various types and locations gives a clear idea of why actors target specific devices.
- Bill Toulas
- December 22, 2021
- 04:46 PM
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Threat actors find and compromise exposed services in 24 hours

Researchers set up 320 honeypots to see how quickly threat actors would target exposed cloud services and report that 80% of them were compromised in under 24 hours.
- Bill Toulas
- November 23, 2021
- 04:35 PM
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New ZHtrap botnet malware deploys honeypots to find more targets

A new botnet is hunting down and transforming unpatched routers, DVRs, and UPnP network devices it takes over into honeypots that help it find other devices to infect.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 12, 2021
- 11:14 AM
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Honeypot Server Gets Infected with WannaCry Ransomware 6 Times in 90 Minutes

The WannaCry ransomware — also known as WCry, Wana Decrypt0r, WannaCrypt, and WanaCrypt0r — infected a honeypot server made to look like a vulnerable Windows computer six times in the span of 90 minutes, according to an experiment carried out by a French security researcher that goes online by the name of Benkow.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 14, 2017
- 08:00 AM
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This Security Expert Wants to Turn Defunct Online Stores into Malware Honeypots

Willem de Groot, a Dutch security expert, is asking owners of defunct or soon-to-be-dead online stores to donate their domains so he can set up honeypots and track credit card stealing malware and other types of cyber-attacks on e-commerce targets.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 23, 2017
- 12:25 PM
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