Hackers don’t poke around themselves, generally. They use bots and scripts to collect info and then return in person to pry open targets they want or find interesting.
Op is tarpitting with a stream, which is a telltale sign of a honeypot, nothing else behaves that way. So a bot crawling for content? Fine. A bot collecting info for suitable targets? Might get the attention of the person looking. And once you have a hacker’s attention, you might be in trouble if they’re competent and start pressing buttons.
You really have to know what you’re doing to understand where in the stack an attacker is going pull levers, which is as individual as people themselves.
This is quite wrong, but it doesn’t matter, because if your setup is insecure, then you’ll find out sooner or later anyway. The hacking space is pretty much automated at this point, which is why my honeypot works at all.
Do you also think that anyone who puts Anubis in front of their website is getting the attention of anonymous illuminati master-hackers because it causes their bots to waste a few processing cycles? Tarpitting is no different. If your bot is written poorly, it will get stuck on even legitimate pages.
Hackers don’t poke around themselves, generally. They use bots and scripts to collect info and then return in person to pry open targets they want or find interesting.
Op is tarpitting with a stream, which is a telltale sign of a honeypot, nothing else behaves that way. So a bot crawling for content? Fine. A bot collecting info for suitable targets? Might get the attention of the person looking. And once you have a hacker’s attention, you might be in trouble if they’re competent and start pressing buttons.
You really have to know what you’re doing to understand where in the stack an attacker is going pull levers, which is as individual as people themselves.
This is quite wrong, but it doesn’t matter, because if your setup is insecure, then you’ll find out sooner or later anyway. The hacking space is pretty much automated at this point, which is why my honeypot works at all.
Do you also think that anyone who puts Anubis in front of their website is getting the attention of anonymous illuminati master-hackers because it causes their bots to waste a few processing cycles? Tarpitting is no different. If your bot is written poorly, it will get stuck on even legitimate pages.