Best Kippo Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

Hudinx

Medium interaction SSH honeypot for logging brute force attacks and shell interactions.

sshd-honeypot

A modified version of OpenSSH deamon forwarding commands to Cowrie for logging brute force attacks and shell interactions.

SSH Honeypot

A low-interaction SSH honeypot that logs connection attempts, usernames, and passwords without allowing actual login access.

Trapster

Honeypot platform deploying network decoys to detect intrusions with zero false positives

Troje

Troje is a honeypot that creates dynamic LXC container environments to attract and monitor attackers while recording their activities and system changes.

honeyssh

Honey-Pod for SSH that logs username and password tries during brute-force attacks.

Telnetlogger

A simple Telnet honeypot program that logs login attempts and credentials from botnet attacks, specifically designed to track Mirai botnet activity.

Anantis TrapEye

Detects intruders the moment they interact with your network.

CatchProbe SmartDeceptive

AI-based deception platform for collecting cyber threat intelligence

Acalvio ShadowPlex

Deception platform using external-facing decoys for threat intel & recon detection

AD Tripwires

Active Directory deception technology for threat detection and response

Sesame IT LOKI: Threat Deception

Network deception tool deploying lures to detect & analyze advanced threats.

Deception Platform

Cyber deception platform for early threat detection, attacker engagement & response.

fofapro fapro

Fake protocol server simulator supporting 50+ network protocols for deception

Beelzebub

Open-source LLM-powered deception framework for multi-protocol honeypot services.

TANNER

TANNER is a remote data analysis service that evaluates HTTP requests and generates responses for SNARE honeypots while emulating application vulnerabilities.

Aves Netsec Defused

SaaS cyber deception platform deploying decoy sensors to detect attackers.

StrutsHoneypot

An Apache 2 based honeypot with detection capabilities specifically designed to identify and analyze Struts CVE-2017-5638 exploitation attempts.

Honeycomb Plugins

A plugin repository that extends the Honeycomb honeypot framework with additional features and capabilities for enhanced threat detection and analysis.

ssh-auth-logger

A low-interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot that logs all authentication attempts in JSON format.

mhn-core-docker

A Docker-based honeypot network implementation featuring cowrie and dionaea honeypots with centralized event collection, geolocation enrichment, and real-time attack visualization.

go-HoneyPot

A Go-based honeypot server for detecting and logging attacker activity

gohoney

SSH Honeypot written in Go that records commands and IP addresses of attempted logins.

Delilah Honeypot

A honeypot system that detects and identifies attack commands, recon attempts, and download commands, mimicking a vulnerable Elasticsearch instance.

DDoSPot

DDoSPot is a plugin-based honeypot platform that tracks UDP-based DDoS attacks and generates daily blacklists of potential attackers and scanners.

Ensnare

Ensnare is a Ruby on Rails gem that deploys honey traps and automated responses to detect and interfere with malicious behavior in web applications.

Kippo Detect

Detects Kippo SSH honeypot instances externally

Bluepot

A Java-based Bluetooth honeypot that captures and analyzes malware and attacks targeting Bluetooth-enabled devices.

Manuka by Andew Michael Smith

A script for setting up a dionaea and kippo honeypot using Docker images.

SSHoney

SSHoney is an SSH honeypot for logging SSH connection attempts.

Hornet

Medium interaction SSH Honeypot with multiple virtual hosts and sandboxed filesystems.

Cowralyze

A command-line tool for analyzing Cowrie honeypot log files over time, generating statistics and visualizations from local or remote log data.

Honeyntp

Honeyntp is an NTP honeypot and logging tool that captures NTP packets into a Redis database to detect DDoS attacks and monitor network time protocol traffic.

Go0r

A simple SSH honeypot written in Golang with a Persian-inspired name.

BW-Pot

BW-Pot is an interactive web application honeypot that deploys vulnerable applications to attract and monitor HTTP/HTTPS attacks, with automated logging to Google BigQuery for analysis.

Ghost USB Honeypot

Ghost USB Honeypot emulates USB storage devices to detect and analyze malware that spreads via USB without requiring prior threat intelligence.

Masscanned

A network responder supporting various protocols with minimal assumptions on client intentions.

sshesame

An easy to set up SSH honeypot for logging SSH connections and activity.

Heralding

A simple honeypot that collects credentials across various protocols

Twisted Honeypots

A Python-based honeypot service for SSH, FTP, and Telnet connections

SSHHiPot

High-interaction SSH honeypot for logging SSH proxy with ongoing development.

sshlowpot

A low-interaction SSH honeypot tool for recording authentication attempts.

Go SSH Honeypot

Fake SSH server that sends push notifications for login attempts

Kippo Stats

A webapp for displaying statistics about your kippo SSH honeypot.

Syrup

Syrup is a Go-based SSH honeypot that simulates SSH services with fake shells, session recording, and comprehensive logging to monitor and analyze unauthorized access attempts.

Blacknet

Blacknet is a low interaction SSH multi-head honeypot system with logging capabilities.

Glutton Setup

Tool for setting up Glutton, a cybersecurity tool for monitoring SSH traffic.

iMISP

A honeypot designed to detect and analyze malicious activities in instant messaging platforms.