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30m Azure Honeypot Project
A honeypot is a fake computer system or network that looks real but isn’t actually used for any important work. It’s designed to attract hackers who are up to no good.
Just like a bee is drawn to honey, hackers are drawn to these honeypots because they seem like easy targets. Once they try to break in, cybersecurity experts can watch what the hackers are doing.
Think of it as a decoy house in a neighborhood. Burglars might try to break in, thinking it’s an easy target, but instead, they get caught in the act!
Most all of the activity you’ll see in the honeypot is automated bots, billions of them, scanning the internet nonstop looking for vulnerable hosts. It doesn’t take 5 seconds after your host is deployed on the internet to start seeing voracious attacks in every direction.
That is what we’re doing here, we’re going to create a Debian VM on Azure, install T-pot, and open up the gates to let anyone and anything in to contact it. Then I’m going to let you poke around and toy with all the features of T-pot.
