https://newo-j.github.io/tags/cloud/ Recent content in Cloud on Jonah Owen Hugo en-gb Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://newo-j.github.io/projects/5-dollar-honeypot/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://newo-j.github.io/projects/5-dollar-honeypot/ <p><figure class="fig" style="--fw:120%"> <img src="https://newo-j.github.io/images/worldmapview.png" alt="Mapview" width="1233" height="607" loading="eager" decoding="async"> </figure> This weekend I decided to run a honeypot because I wanted some more blue team experience.</p> <p>I initially tried to run the honeypot on a Raspberry Pi, using port forwarding to expose the SSH honeypot on my router, but this proved difficult as the router would perform NAT on the source IPs, rendering IP geolocation and fraud analysis useless. Because AWS lightsail doesn&rsquo;t use NAT for incoming requests, I figured it was more practical for this project.</p>