Exploring Current E-mail Cyber Threats Using Authenticated SMTP Honeypot

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009591002530262" target="_blank" >10.5220/0009591002530262</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploring Current E-mail Cyber Threats Using Authenticated SMTP Honeypot
Original language description
Today, spam is a major attack vector hackers use to cause harm. Let it be through phishing or direct malicious attachments, e-mail can be used to steal credentials, distribute malware, or cause other illegal activities. Even nowadays, most users are unaware of such danger, and it is the responsibility of the cybersecurity community to protect them. To do that, we need tools to gain proper threat intelligence in the e-mail cyber landscape. In this work, we show how an e-mail honeypot requiring authentication can be used to monitor current e-mail threats. We study how such honeypot performs in place of an open relay server. The results show this kind of solution provides a powerful tool to collect fresh malicious samples spreading in the wild. We present a framework we built around this solution and show how its users are automatically notified about unknown threats. Further, we perform analysis of the data collected and present a view on the threats spreading in the recent months as captured by this authentication-requiring e-mail honeypot.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2020)
ISBN
978-989-758-446-6
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
253-262
Publisher name
SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications
Place of publication
Paris
Event location
Paris
Event date
Jul 8, 2020
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000615962200021

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