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TFTP Honey Pot Results
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A security researcher analyzed traffic captured by a TFTP honey pot, finding that the vast majority of probes originated from automated scans by cybersecurity companies rather than malicious actors. The author details the technical challenges of identifying and categorizing these repetitive, daily network requests.
2026-07-12 (Last Modified: 2026-07-13) My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It's time to see what surprises it has captured.
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