The Honeynet Project has a new CEO

07 Dec 2021 Roberto Tanara featured
The Honeynet Project has appointed Ali Ikinci as the new CEO. We wish to thank Faiz Ahmad Shuja for leading the project over the past years, and welcome Ali for accepting the challenge. Founder and current leader of the Turkish Chapter, Ali is a longtime Honeynet Project member and contributor: he co-authored research papers on malicious website detection with low-interaction honeyclients and on honeypots for the Internet of Things. Born and raised in Germany, Ali is also an established professional in the Information Security field, with broad experience as a Chief Security Analyst, Product Manager, Senior IT consultant and Entrepreneur.

Intel Owl: Release v3.0.0

13 Sep 2021 Eshaan Bansal intelowl threatintel
Intel Owl GitHub repository Intel Owl is an Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT solution to get threat intelligence data about a specific file or observable from a single API at scale. Intel Owl helps enrich threat intelligence data, especially speeding up retrieval of info because it is composed of 100+ analyzers (tools, external APIs, etc.). Organizations can host their own instance of Intel Owl to help mitigate threats more effectively.

GSoC 2021 Project Summary: IntelOwl Connectors Manager and Integrations

20 Aug 2021 Matteo Lodi gsoc intelowl threatintel

Our GSoC student Shubham Pandey was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically introducing the connector manager allowing for powerful integrations with external data sources.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

GSoC 2021 Project Summary: IntelOwl Improvements

20 Aug 2021 Matteo Lodi gsoc intelowl threatintel

Our GSoC student Sarthak Khattar was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically overhauling the analyzer configuration, API and test suite refactoring, and the integration of new analyzers.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

GSoC 2020 Project Summary: SNARE/TANNER

13 Nov 2020 Mehtab Zafar honeypots snare tanner
This year I got selected for Google Summer of Code 2020 under The Honeynet Project and worked on the SNARE/TANNER. GSoC 2020 was very special for me because I finally got selected for the organization, for which I’ve been trying to get selected for the past 2 years. Background I got to know about Google Summer of Code in 2018 when I learned that my elder brother has done it 3 years in a row.

GSOC 2020 PROJECT SUMMARY: HosTaGe

29 Sep 2020 Irini Lygerou honeypot mobile mobile-hostage
HosTaGe: a mobile honeypot Why I choose this project I am passionate about Network Security, Cybersecurity, and programming, and I wanted to get involved with a project that includes it all. HosTaGe project drew my attention because I found it really fascinating the idea that any android device can be turned into a honeypot and be transformed into an essential tool for attack detection. I wanted to work on this project because it allowed me to improve this new generation of mobile honeypots and consequently improve the security of the internet in general.

GSOC 2020 PROJECT SUMMARY: INFECTION MONKEY

27 Aug 2020 Abhinav Saxena gsoc gsoc2020 infection-monkey
Shreya Malviya wrote this post as a project summary of her GSoC2020 experience. Team: Mentors: Shay Nehmad, Daniel Goldberg Student: Shreya Malviya Introduction What is Infection Monkey? Infection Monkey is an open-source security tool for testing a data center’s resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across on-premises/cloud-based data centers and finds their weaknesses, whose results it then reports to a centralized Monkey Island Command and Control server.

GSoC 2020 Project Summary: A new front-end and analyzers for IntelOwl

26 Aug 2020 Eshaan Bansal gsoc intelowl threatintel

Our GSoC student Eshaan Bansal was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically introducing a brand new front-end written in Angular and analyzers to automate integrations.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

More GSoC Progress: Mitmproxy 5.2 released!

23 Jul 2020 Maximilian Hils
We are excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 5.2, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy! As the first part of his Google Summer of Code (GSoC) at the Honeynet Project, our student Martin Plattner (@MartinPlattnr) has completely revamped mitmproxy’s replacement feature, which is a powerful tool to modify and redirect HTTP messages. As a small demonstration, Martin showed us how we can make these turbulent times much more bearable with a simple mitmproxy invocation: