"An innovative malware honeypot project backed by a leading consortium
of IT security experts is preparing to re-launch its global sensor
network after Jan. 1 in an effort to dupe more cyber-criminals into
handing over information about their latest attack methods.
Project link: The Web Application Security Consortium's Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project,
which was initially turned on in Jan. 2007, will relight its set of
attack monitoring sensors on or about the first of the year after
significantly scaling back its operations during the month of December.
After its initial 11 months of data collection, the project
undertook the month-long hiatus to give project researchers more time
to examine results and plan for the year ahead.
In addition to tweaking their tactics for tracking and luring
malware distributors in 2008, WASC project leaders said they are also
planning to add new honeypots to their existing network, which already
spans locations in Europe, Russia, South America, and the United
States.
Unlike more traditional OS-level or SMTP-based honeypot
applications — systems designed to collect individual malware samples
for subsequent examination by anti-virus researchers — the WASC
project utilizes a network of 14 specially-configured open proxy
servers (or proxypots) to monitor traffic for nefarious activities
carried out by everyone from botnet herders to adware purveyors. "
Article Link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/Malware-honeypots-wait-for-08_1.html
Project link: http://www.webappsec.org/projects/honeypots/
