Honeypot Threat Analysis — August 11, 2026
High threat activity — Telnet IoT botnet probes and SMTP mail relay abuse attempts.
Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Analysis — August 11, 2026
Threat Landscape Overview
During the 24-hour observation cycle on August 11, 2026, Honey-AI.Dev recorded an active threat surface comprising 12930 telemetry events generated by 130 distinct adversarial sources.
The primary threat vector centered around Mirai-variant Telnet reconnaissance targeting edge devices and automated SMTP spam relay attempts..
Top Identified Threat Actors
77.90.185.30— High-frequency dictionary attack engine targeting core SSH and database authentication sockets.194.165.16.162— Persistent credential spray probing RDP (3389/tcp) and MySQL (3306/tcp).46.151.182.247— Automated vulnerability scanning crawler inspecting CMS endpoints and exposed configuration files.
Protocol Breakdown & Attack Vector Analysis
- SSH & Remote Terminal (
22/tcp,23/tcp): Recorded 610 connection attempts with 288 credential brute-force payloads. Top attempted usernames includedroot,admin,ubuntu, andservice. - Database & Data Layer (
3306/tcp,1433/tcp,6379/tcp): Sustained unauthenticated discovery commands targeting exposed relational and key-value datastores. - Web Application Fuzzing (Galah LLM Honeypot): Captured 98 HTTP requests probing for sensitive administrative routes,
.envleakage, and arbitrary remote code execution paths.
Automated Defensive Actions
- Community Threat Sharing: Dispatched 115 automated abuse reports to AbuseIPDB, Blocklist.de, SANS DShield, and AlienVault OTX.
- Dynamic Firewall Mitigation: Real-time synchronization pushed active IP blocks across all perimeter nodes via CrowdSec multi-node decision mesh.