People were close, but what you actually want is OpenCanary. It fakes SSH and Samba services and can be configured to alert you when triggered.
....why would you do this?
I plan on making it available inside my own network, not public. This way if someone makes it past my security, I at least have something that might "catch" them in the act and disable my network so I can intervene. Just another security layer.
I have never thought about doing this... But this is actually such a good idea. I'm probably going to set this up myself
If you place this on the inside of your network and it triggers, youre either compromised or a scanner/ person triggered it.
That's the idea I think
one of the best ways to protect your friends is to leave juicy bait that only zero-sum people would try to steal
plus wasting malicious user's time also provides multiple benefits such as reducing the prevalence of spam and DDoS attacks
Do you not feel the itch of curiosity?
FOR SCIENCE!1!!
I am not affiliated with them, but you can get a trigger file (Canary Token) from the people at Thinkst. I quickly looked around their site, and did not see how, but their adds say you can get them for free, without having to buy their canary hardware device.
You can also use something called canary tokens. You would put a file on a share that triggers an action to alert you.
I'd like to create a funnypot
The Honeynet Project, related to the SANS Institute when I last checked, has a lot of resources on honeypots that are worth a look, if you haven't already.
I haven't used it, but here is my first web search result: https://github.com/droberson/ssh-honeypot Also: https://github.com/paralax/awesome-honeypots
Thinkst have also published opencanary which you can run yourself and contains a decent subset of what their hardware canaries run, including SSH and cifs.
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