by Nathaniel Quist
Honeypots are making a profound impact in the security world. Their ability to infer information about an attacker’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), allow defenders to configure their defenses to respond to emerging threats, capture 0-Day exploits, and identify malicious users within a network.
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Honeypots and honey tokens can be useful tools for examining follow-up to phishing attacks. In this exercise, we respond using valid email addresses that actually received the phish, and wrong passwords. We demonstrate using custom single sign-on code to redirect logins with those fake passwords and any other logins from presumed attacker source IP addresses to a dedicated phishing-victim web honeypot. Although the proof-of-concept described did not become a production deployment, it provided insight into current attacks.
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