Honeypot Threat Analysis — August 13, 2026
High severity threat level — continuous FTP authentication spray and Redis unauthenticated scans.
Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Analysis — August 13, 2026
Threat Landscape Overview
During the 24-hour observation cycle on August 13, 2026, Honey-AI.Dev recorded an active threat surface comprising 11840 telemetry events generated by 122 distinct adversarial sources.
The primary threat vector centered around Brute-force campaigns on legacy FTP endpoints coupled with unauthenticated Redis INFO queries..
Top Identified Threat Actors
194.165.16.162— High-frequency dictionary attack engine targeting core SSH and database authentication sockets.77.90.185.30— Persistent credential spray probing RDP (3389/tcp) and MySQL (3306/tcp).143.0.66.14— Automated vulnerability scanning crawler inspecting CMS endpoints and exposed configuration files.
Protocol Breakdown & Attack Vector Analysis
- SSH & Remote Terminal (
22/tcp,23/tcp): Recorded 590 connection attempts with 275 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 85 HTTP requests probing for sensitive administrative routes,
.envleakage, and arbitrary remote code execution paths.
Automated Defensive Actions
- Community Threat Sharing: Dispatched 108 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.