We are happy to announce that we have been selected as an organization to participate in Google Summer of Code 2024! This will be the 15th time that Honeynet is participating in the Google Summer of Code program to accelerate the creation of information- and cyber security related tools that are free and open source software. We are now entering the community bonding phase during which students are encouraged to reach out and interact with organizations and start getting involved with potential projects. We strongly recommend to join our Discord.

Our dedicated Google Summer of Code (GSoC) participant, Abheek, has spent an impressive three-month duration program actively contributing to not one, but two distinct projects: IntelOwl and Buffalogs. Notably, Abheek undertook the responsibility of crafting the brand-new official website for IntelOwl throughout this period.

In light of this significant achievement, we believe it is only fitting to showcase his remarkable results and contributions within the official IntelOwl site, in which he discuses his journey as a designer/frontend developer, the tasks involved and the detailed contributions to both projects, including the revamping of IntelOwl’s website, implementing JWT authentication for Buffalogs, creating maps and graphs for BuffaLogs’ dashboard, and crafting a frontend guide for IntelOwl using react-joyride.

Our GSoC student Kumiszhan Dybyspayeva was working for three months under the supervision of Lukas Rist on Ochi, specifically on introducing new features such as event filtering using a DSL, persisting filters and sharing an event.

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

Our GSoC student Aditya Narayan Sinha was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on introducing playbooks that define automated actions associated with the observation of a specific indicator of compromise.

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

Our GSoC student Aditya Pratap Singh was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on bulk analysis, single sign-on, and major improvements to the configurations and secrets.

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

Our GSoC student Hussain Khan was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on a Go client library, allowing developers to integrate with the IntelOwl API in their solutions.

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

Our GSoC student Hariom Chaturved was working for three months on the network capture analysis tool PcapMonkey, specifically introducing live capture, testing architecture, and the introduction of zkg support.

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

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.

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.

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.