What is Honeypot? Types of Honeypot!!

 

What is Honeypot?   A honeypot is a computer system on the Internet intended to attract and trap those who attempt unauthorized or illicit utilization of the host system to penetrate an organization's network It is a fake proxy run to frame attackers by logging traffic through it and then sending complaints to the victims' ISPs It has no authorized activity or production value, and any traffic to it is like a probe, attack, or compromise. Whenever there is any interaction with a honeypot, it is most likely to be malicious Honeypots are unique; they do not solve a specific problem Instead, they are highly flexible tools with many different security applications Honeypots help in preventing attacks, detecting attacks, and information gathering and research. A honeypot can log port access attempts or monitor an attacker's keystroke these could be early warnings of a more concerted attack. It requires a considerable amount of effort to maintain a honeypot   Example of Honeypot :

Types of Honeypot   Classification of honeypots based on their design criteria : Low-Interaction Honeypots These honeypots simulate only a limited number of services and applications of a target system or network Medium-Interaction Honeypots These honeypots simulate a real-life operating system, applications, and services of a target network High-Interaction Honeypots These honeypots simulate all services and applications of a target network Pure Honeypots These honeypots emulate the real production network of a target organization Classification of honeypots based on their deployment strategy: Production Honeypot Deployed inside the production network of the organization along with other production servers. effectively capture only a limited amount of information related to the adversaries Fall under the low-interaction honeypot category employed by large organizations and corporations help to find internal flaws and attackers within an organization Research Honeypot high-interaction honeypots deployed by research institutes, governments, or military organizations to gain detailed knowledge about the actions of intruders. security analysts can obtain in-depth information about how an attack is performed, vulnerabilities are exposed, and attack techniques and methods are used by the attacks This analysis, help organization to improve attack prevention, detection, and security mechanism and develop a more secure network infrastructure Drawback: do not contribute to the direct security of the company Classification of honeypots based on their deception technology : Malware Honeypots to track malware campaigns or malware attempts over the network infrastructure simulated with known vulnerabilities such as outdated APIs, vulnerable SMBv1, protocols, etc Also emulate different trojans, viruses, and backdoors Lure attacker or malware into performing attacks, from which the attack pattern, malware signatures, and malware threat actors can be identified effectively Spam Honeypots Target spammers who abuse vulnerable resources such as ⇒ open mail relays and open proxies consist of mail servers ⇒ that accept emails from any random source from the internet Spider Honeypots also called spider traps trap web crawlers and spiders Database Honeypots employ fake databases that are vulnerable to perform database-related attacks such as SQL Injection and database enumeration These fake databases trick the attackers by making them think that this database contains crucial sensitive information but in actual these details are fake Email Honeypots also called email traps fake email addresses ⇒ used to attract fake and malicious emails from adversaries fake email IDs will be distributed across the open internet and dark web to lure threat actors into performing various malicious activities to exploit the organization we constantly monitor the incoming mails Honeynets are a network of honeypots very effective in determining the entire capabilities of the adversaries mostly deployed in an isolated virtual environment along with a combination of vulnerable servers

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