MTPot
An open-source telnet honeypot designed to detect and fingerprint IoT botnets like Mirai by simulating vulnerable devices.
What is MTPot?
MTPot is an open-source telnet honeypot that simulates vulnerable IoT devices to detect and fingerprint malicious botnet scanners. It helps security researchers identify attacks like Mirai by logging command sequences and attacker IPs, providing insights into IoT threat landscapes.
Security researchers, network defenders, and IoT administrators looking to monitor telnet-based attack attempts and gather threat intelligence on IoT botnets.
Developers choose MTPot for its simplicity, configurable command-response system, and focused approach to telnet-based IoT botnet detection, offering a lightweight alternative to complex honeypot frameworks.
Overview
Open Source Telnet Honeypot
Use Cases
Best For
- Monitoring telnet ports for IoT botnet scanning activity
- Fingerprinting Mirai and similar malware variants
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