Honeypot

MikroTik Honeypot

A deliberately exposed lure to catch brute force attempts, study patterns, and report abusers.

MikroTik Honeypot

A deliberately exposed lure to catch brute force attempts, study patterns, and report abusers.

What is a honeypot?

  • A system intentionally exposed to attract attackers (SSH, Winbox, etc.).
  • It observes, collects, and records attempts to understand how attackers operate.
  • It helps identify malicious sources and harden real defenses.

Why this MikroTik honeypot?

  • Capture brute force attempts on a realistic router-side environment.
  • Correlate IPs, user agents, and attack patterns before notifying AS abuse contacts.
  • Measure the impact of notifications via real-time dashboards and alerts.

Reports sent

Number of attempts already captured and reported to the AS abuse teams.

7 697
Reports sent