Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis report addresses the challenge of detecting AI-driven offensive cyber agents, proposing a strategic 'detection-in-depth' framework. According to the authors, five detection mechanisms are presented, including agent identifiers and agent honeypots, intended to support policymakers and industry against this emerging threat.
NetworkCloudHoneypotAdversary engagement
Dataset or lab2026
Material reviewed: Public pageCritical readingZenodo record of DICOM/PACS telemetry from medical-imaging honeypot research; it documents periods of data loss.
ApplicationOT/ICSHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis paper presents DICOMHawk, a cyber-deception framework that emulates DICOM and PACS services with realistic interactions, dynamically populated medical records, and embedded honeytokens, designed to protect medical imaging infrastructure. According to the authors, in a 424-day deployment across multiple networks, DICOMHawk attracted more valid sessions than Dicompot, avoided honeypot detection, and captured 67 medical-related attacks from 15 unique IPs.
NetworkApplicationHoneypotHoneytoken
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataDICOM Honeypot
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis paper presents a behavior-driven attacker profiling framework built from empirical data collected in SSH honeypot deployments. The methodology parses complex command chains to identify behavioral patterns, organize them into hierarchical clusters, and map them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for structured threat interpretation.
NetworkHoneypot
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataHoneypot type for Symfony forms
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe paper describes an intrusion detection system that monitors live packets and uses predefined rules to detect suspicious activity rather than machine learning models. It includes a honeypot module with a fake login interface and human-readable explanations for detected anomalies.
NetworkHoneypot
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataExpress honeypot for remote file inclusion (RFI) and local file inclusion (LFI).
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis paper presents LDT-FRL, a defense framework combining temporal attention encoders, lightweight digital twins, and a federated reinforcement learning (PPO) agent capable of redirecting suspicious traffic to honeypots in IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) environments. According to the authors, the system was evaluated on public network traffic benchmarks, achieving high classification metrics and explainability via techniques such as SHAP and Grad-CAM.
IoTNetworkHoneypotAdversary engagement
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataHTTP honeypot on autopilot
ApplicationHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe paper proposes a proactive defense approach using a high-interaction honeypot for DDoS detection and prevention. The honeypot captures IP addresses, malware and attacker tactics, feeding firewalls and traffic filters to block similar threats across the network.
NetworkHoneypot
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataFortigate VPN-SSL Honeypot
NetworkHoneypot
Dataset or lab2026
Material reviewed: Public pageSSH interaction data collected by a honeypot between July and November 2025; event count comes from the authors.
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe authors conduct a systematic literature review and introduce a taxonomy characterizing honeypot detection techniques across contextual and technical dimensions, framing detection as identifying inconsistencies between observable system properties and attacker expectations. They map existing evasion and detection methods to this taxonomy, analyze the gap between academic techniques and those used in practice, and outline mitigation strategies and design principles aimed at improving honeypot resilience.
Honeypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe authors present a honeypot architecture based on a fine-tuned LLM that combines command-line, API and dynamic web interaction with state management and security safeguards. The abstract describes a prototype simulating a Synology NAS on an OpenCanary baseline and an adaptation to a medical FHIR API.
ApplicationHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe authors study attacker behavior across eleven SSH honeypots accepting both interactive and non-interactive sessions over fifteen days. According to the abstract, they found that the vast majority of authenticated sessions were non-interactive, challenging common assumptions in cyber deception research focused on interactive shells.
NetworkHoneypotDecoy
Open software2026
Material reviewed: Repository metadataGeneric Low Interaction Honeypot
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis paper proposes GroupGuard, a training-free defense framework against group collusive attacks in large language model-based multi-agent systems. The approach combines continuous graph-based monitoring, active honeypot inducement, and structural pruning to identify and isolate collusive agents. The authors report high detection accuracy across experiments with five datasets and four topologies.
ApplicationHoneypotAdversary engagement
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis work, according to its authors, addresses DoS/DDoS mitigation by separating malicious from benign traffic using honeypots, framing the problem as a weighted MaxCut solved with variational quantum algorithms (QAOA). The authors describe a reproducible honeypot-to-QUBO pipeline, labeled temporal bipartite benchmark graphs, QAOA executions on IBM hardware, classical heuristic baselines, and a routing overhead analysis across quantum processor architectures.
NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe paper proposes HIVE-O, a decentralized honeypot framework for IoT ecosystems, with lightweight distributed nodes that capture, analyze and share attack intelligence without a single point of control. The authors describe emulation of IoT services and protocols and an experimental evaluation of reconnaissance, exploitation and denial-of-service attempts.
IoTHoneypotDecoy
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe authors present HIVE-OT's design and implementation and evaluate the evidence supported by its process-coupled research core and historical exports, distinguishing the documented platform from a local implementation linking Modbus, a revised Rust water-treatment surrogate and SQLite. The study tests protocol behavior, command application and retained outcome representations, and audits two deployment exports containing 273978 and 842638 events.
OT/ICSNetworkHoneypot
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe abstract describes Honey Shield, a deception-driven cybersecurity paradigm for web authentication systems. It proposes a centralized security service interface offering defenses such as honeypot redirection and SQL injection protection, redirecting malicious users to a decoy system and logging incidents for later analysis.
ApplicationIdentityHoneypotDecoy
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThe work presents HoneyPrompt, a multi-sensor fusion architecture for detecting and classifying autonomous AI agents that interact with industrial control systems. The authors deploy a maritime SCADA honeypot simulating a pipeline monitoring gateway across six protocols and instrument it with a graduated prompt injection acting as a sensor array.
OT/ICSNetworkHoneypotHoneytoken
Paper2026
Material reviewed: AbstractThis paper adapts the Honeyquest instrument to automatically evaluate LLM-based attacker judgment against cyber deception techniques. According to the authors, a cohort of 21 models from various providers was compared against a human baseline on reconnaissance tasks, finding that LLMs fall for traps at higher rates than humans and show a gap between recognizing deception in their reasoning and acting accordingly. The authors conclude that human-centered deception hypotheses do not reliably transfer to AI attackers.
NetworkHoneypotDecoy