Honeysploit: Exploiting the Exploiters

Curtis Brazzell
18 min readApr 26, 2020

“TrstdXploitz” by “L33terman6000”

I’ve been wanting to perform an experiment for some time now and finally got around to it. I present to you what I think is a unique spin on an old idea, a new type of honeypot. Follow along as I explain the adventure that unfolded, including personal threats, Distributed Denial of Service attacks, the Dark Web, and some shocking statistics! Warning: Some egos were likely harmed during the making of this blog.

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Curtis Brazzell

Passionate geek for Information/Cyber Security! I’m always learning and am happy to contribute anything I can share with the community. Follow me @ Twitter!