cowrie VS endlessh

Thanks for the reference; after some link chasing I was able to end up on the project I believe you're thinking of: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie#features (appears to be BSD-3-Clause: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/blob/master/LICENSE.rst )

Technically, yes, but it is quite difficult to perform a realistic emulation of an OS with shell facilities, as evidenced by all the system emulation on SSH honeypots e.g. cowrie[1].

[1] https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues

In EU Law as long as you don't post full names you should be fine. There are honeypots for this purpose ready to deploy btw! Check out Cowrie. Best SSH honeypot I encountered so far.

Thanks for your opinion mate. I use Cowrie in connection with qemu aka my proxmox Here is the link 2 it: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie

Source is from data collected using Cowrie Honeypot The tool for displaying the data is Splunk

It's currently a cowrie (https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie) with ssh and telnet. For my use case a low interaction in enough, maybe I'll code my own in the future.

I set up one of these a while back: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie

Hey I’ve done some honeypot research if you’re wanting to explore that take a look at cowrie: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie

You can reduce the noise a lot by moving ssh to a non standard port. Security through obscurity isn't actually security, but it will reduce the number of attempts you receive. Another thing I like to do is put Endlessh on the standard port 22. That way as bots go by they will get stuck or at least slow down on that connection.

SSH tarpit with Endlessh and for the hidden SSH: auth with both a key files (that need unlocking and is on the computer) AND an One Time Password on my phone.

If you change the ssh port, install https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh to slow down the attackers

Even this requires you to successfully guess the username and password correctly, and if it's just not the default most people won't bother brute forcing further. Sidenote: you can use endlessh on a computer and port forward port 22 to trap scanners that scan the entire internet for open ssh ports to exploit.

The fun way is moving your ssh port somewhere else and installing endlessh to f the bots.

Such as endlessh

But, as a prank to Chinese hackers, what I did on my system was to run endless ssh. It keeps the ssh client busy as it slowly sends the ssh banner. I modified the code to send strings like:

For hardening: I use lynis for some guidance, the VPS runs rkhunter, AIDE and other things nightly and mails me the reports, fail2ban manages the SSH port, having SSH on a custom port helps to keep things quiet. If you're into these kind of things, have a look at the Endlessh tarpit to learn about login attempts on port 22 on your machine - I found it eye-opening.