Two researchers have created a solution that could help security researchers and IoT manufacturers with detecting zero-day exploits targeting internet-connected devices more speedily than ever before.
It’s called honware, and it’s a virtual honeypot framework that can emulate Linux-based Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and IoT devices by using devices’ firmware image.
“Honware automatically processes a standard firmware image (as is commonly provided for updates), customises the filesystem and runs the system with a special pre-built Linux kernel. It then logs attacker traffic and records which of their actions led to a compromise,” Alexander Vetterl and Richard Clayton, with the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, explained.
Solving a long-standing problem
There are several IoT honeypot systems available for researchers out there, but they all have one or ..
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