ABOUT
The Cowrie Honeypot Project
Cowrie is a free and open-source SSH and Telnet honeypot, developed in the open and used by security researchers, CERTs, and defenders around the world.
The project
Watching attackers since 2014
Cowrie began in 2014 as a fork of the Kippo honeypot and has grown into one of the most widely deployed honeypots in the world. It records brute-force attacks and the shell sessions attackers perform, captures the malware they upload, and turns it all into threat intelligence you can analyze with the tools you already use.
Development happens in the open on GitHub, driven by a community of volunteer contributors.
- Free and open source, BSD licensed
- Built by a worldwide community of contributors
- Google Summer of Code participant with the Honeynet Project
The team
Who maintains it
Cowrie is maintained by volunteers, with code contributed by more than 190 people.
