SouthEast Linux Fest 2025

Atomic Honeypot: A MySQL Honeypot That Drops Shells
2025-06-15 , BallroomC

Meet an attacking MySQL honeypot


A MySQL honepot which can "Attack the attackers". We present various CVEs we found in MySQL server and how we used it to create Atomic Honeypot. As a result we discovered 2 new attacks against MySQL server. + recorded demos of honeypot in action.

Principal Security Engineer at AWS