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