Defensive technique

Honeypots and honeynets

Systems and services prepared to observe interactions that ordinary operations should not produce.

Research question

What interaction does the lure simulate and what data does it collect?

Context and method

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Paper2026

A 4-Month Dataset of Interactive SSH Honeypot Logs and Command Payloads [Preprint]

Material reviewed: Public page

Paper describing a longitudinal dataset of high-interaction SSH honeypot logs covering connection attempts, authentication brute-forcing and post-authentication command execution. It is intended as a ground-truth source for empirical research and anomaly detection development.

NetworkHoneypot
Paper2026

A Corpus of Real Scam- and Spam-Call Conversations from an Active Voice-Agent Honeypot

Material reviewed: Abstract

This paper presents a corpus of real scam- and spam-call conversations collected via an active voice-agent honeypot. According to the authors, the system adopts a plausible target persona to sustain interactions with fraudulent callers, recording audio, transcripts, and automatic labels. The study describes the collection system, record structure, and an evaluation of corpus realism and label quality, as well as benchmarking scam detectors trained on synthetic dialogue against real traffic.

NetworkIdentityHoneypotDecoy
Paper2026

A trust-aware blockchain framework with deception-based edge nodes for secure and scalable IoT healthcare systems

Material reviewed: Abstract

The authors propose TAB-DEN, a framework for IoT healthcare systems that combines a permissioned blockchain with Proof of Authority consensus for decentralized authentication, a hierarchical edge architecture of primary and secondary edge servers that compute trust scores in real time and redirect traffic according to trustworthiness, and deception-based edge nodes acting as honeypot-like environments to attract, isolate and profile attackers. The stated aim is to provide scalable and quantum-resistant security, recording intrusion events through a lattice-based post-quantum signature scheme so that attack records are immutable and verifiable on the distributed ledger.

IoTNetworkHoneypotDecoy
Open software2026

Acra

Material reviewed: Repository metadata

Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.

ApplicationHoneypot
Paper2026

Adaptive Honeypot Allocation in Multi‑Attacker Networks via Bayesian Stackelberg Games

Material reviewed: Abstract

The authors present a multi-attacker Bayesian Stackelberg framework for allocating honeypots in a directed network, modeling each attacker as a follower with a latent type and the defender as replanning via a DOBSS-style mixed-integer linear program under posterior beliefs. They aim to scale defense to realistic graphs using layered structures and pruning.

NetworkHoneypotDecoy
Paper2026

AdvancedShelLM: A Stateful Multi-Agent LLM Honeypot for SSH Deception

Material reviewed: Abstract

The authors present AdvancedShelLM, an LLM-based SSH honeypot using a multi-agent architecture (Manager and Worker) intended to improve command understanding and deceptive capability over its predecessor shelLM. According to the abstract, the system was evaluated through unit tests, an AI attacker, human attackers, and an Internet deployment.

NetworkEndpointHoneypotDecoy