The Digital Cockroach Bait Station: How to Build Spam Honeypots

The Digital Cockroach Bait Station: How to Build Spam Honeypots

Spam honeypots are an excellent way to gather malware binaries as well as malicious URLs that attackers use to infect their targets. Many malware campaigns are shotgun blasts of emails sent to very large numbers of email addresses. If you can get your bait address on their list, they essentially send you a copy of the malware or the URL that leads to it. This talk will cover how to setup a spam honeypot for gathering these types of threats. It will also cover how to efficiently sort through the data coming in, what data points are valuable to include in your analysis, and finally how and where to share the threat data that you are gathering. The goal is to give one the tools they need to protect themselves from emerging threats as they appear in the wild.

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