You are looking at the HoneyMap, a real-time world map which visualizes attacks captured by honeypots of the Honeynet Project. Red markers on the map represent attackers, yellow markers are targets (honeypot sensors).
This project is highly experimental and should be considered an ALPHA version. So far, current Chrome and Firefox browsers should work fine. Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer probably wont work. If you identify bugs or have feature requests, please let us know.
Technology
Frontend: jQuery, jVectorMap, jQuery-Transit, bootstrap
Backend: node.js, socket.io, hpfeeds
Authors
Florian Weingarten (
flo@hackvalue.de) (@fw1729)
Mark Schloesser (
ms@mwcollect.org) (@repmovsb)
Frequently Asked Questions
What am I looking at? Is this real?
Yes, you are looking at real attacks which are captured by our honeypot sensors. Those sensors emulate vulnerable systems and record incoming attacks.
Sensors run dionaea, glastopf, or thug.
Where does the data come from?
Some (by far not all) of our sensors publish their captures to our internal feed system (hpfeeds). The map backend subscribes to this feed and makes geo location lookups on the corresponding IP addresses.
Is the data representative?
No! Not at all. The Honeynet Project has many more sensors around the world, but only a few push their captures.
What is going on in Aachen?!
Most of the time, you will see attacks targeted against Aachen. This is because our honeypot at RWTH Aachen University is very active and captures attacks against hundreds of target IP addresses. This does not mean that Aachen is attacked more often than the rest of the world!
How can I participate?
If you are already a member of the Honeynet Project, you can just publish your captures to hpfeeds and they will automatically show up on this map. If you are not a member, you can run your own copy of this map on your own server. Code is on GitHub (LGPL license).
Why did you create this map?
Just for fun. We like visualization and we wanted to play around with node.js/socket.io. This map was hacked together in essentially 2-3 days.