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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Honeypot Tools

Explore free and open source honeypot tools for detecting attacks, analysing malware, capturing credentials, and monitoring threats.

Heralding is a credentials-catching honeypot that emulates common authentication services and records usernames, passwords, and session data.

Dionaea is a network honeypot that emulates vulnerable services, detects shellcode, captures attack activity, and supports numerous protocols.

OpenCanary is a lightweight, modular network honeypot that emulates common services and generates alerts when attackers interact with them.

rDNS is a Rust DNS server supporting recursive and authoritative service, DNSSEC validation, DNS-over-TLS, RPZ filtering and metrics.

SDNS is a recursive DNS resolver written in Go with DNSSEC validation, encrypted DNS transports, policy controls and operational monitoring.

Squid is a caching web proxy with configurable access controls, HTTP traffic policies, reverse proxy mode and cache management.