6 New Honeypot Sensors: Hong Kong, Doha, Brussels, Stockholm, Las Vegas, and North Carolina

We deployed 6 new honeypot sensors this week, bringing SikkerAPI's global threat intelligence network to 44 sensors across 23 countries. The new locations are Hong Kong, Doha (Qatar), Brussels (Belgium), Stockholm (Sweden), Las Vegas, and North Charleston (North Carolina).

All six are online and capturing malicious IP activity across all 16 monitored protocols.

Why Geographic Coverage Matters for IP Threat Intelligence

Attackers don't distribute evenly. Botnets concentrate in specific regions. Scanning campaigns target specific IP ranges. An attacker probing servers in Southeast Asia may never touch a European honeypot, and vice versa.

Every new honeypot location means visibility into IP threats and attack patterns that our existing network might miss. A sensor in Hong Kong observes different malicious traffic than a sensor in Dallas. A sensor in Doha captures attack campaigns targeting Middle Eastern infrastructure that our European sensors would never encounter.

More geographic coverage means fewer blind spots in our IP reputation data.

The New Sensors

Hong Kong — Our first honeypot sensor in the Hong Kong region. Expands APAC threat intelligence coverage alongside our existing sensors in Singapore, Osaka, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Bengaluru. Early traffic is already showing SSH brute-force and database scanning patterns distinct from what we observe in Southeast Asia and Japan.

Doha, Qatar — Our first sensor in the Gulf region alongside Israel. The Middle East has unique attack patterns driven by its concentration of energy, finance, and government infrastructure. This sensor fills a gap in our IP threat data that we've had since launch.

Brussels, Belgium — Adds Western European coverage between our existing honeypot sensors in France, Germany, and the UK. Brussels also puts us in the same city as major EU institutional infrastructure, which attracts its own class of reconnaissance and credential-stuffing traffic.

Stockholm, Sweden — Adds Nordic coverage alongside our two Helsinki sensors. Scandinavia is a significant hosting region, and a Swedish sensor diversifies our Northern European visibility beyond Finland and Denmark.

Las Vegas, US — A new western US location. Complements our existing sensors in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Dallas, and Miami. Different hosting provider, different IP range, different attacker traffic profile.

North Charleston, North Carolina — East Coast US coverage. Fills the gap between our New York/New Jersey sensors and our southern US presence in Dallas and Miami.

44 Honeypot Sensors, 23 Countries

The full IP threat intelligence network now spans:

• Europe: Germany, Finland, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden
• North America: United States (9 locations), Canada, Mexico
• Asia-Pacific: Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan (2 locations), Australia, India
• Middle East: Qatar, Israel
• South America: Brazil
• Africa: South Africa

Every sensor runs all 16 high-interaction protocol honeypots — SSH, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Redis, Docker, Telnet, IMAP, RTSP, SIP, SMB, and Elasticsearch — capturing post-authentication attacker behavior, malicious commands, credential attempts, and malware downloads in real time.

Lightweight Honeypot Architecture

Each SikkerAPI sensor runs on a $3-5/month VPS instance. The entire 44-sensor global honeypot network costs less than a single month of most enterprise threat intelligence subscriptions.

This isn't a cost-cutting measure — it's an architectural decision. Our sensors are built to be lightweight and disposable. They boot fast, consume minimal resources, and can be replaced in under a minute if compromised. That makes it practical to deploy across dozens of hosting providers and regions instead of concentrating in a few expensive data centers.

Spreading sensors across different providers also improves IP reputation accuracy. Attackers that scan one provider's IP range won't necessarily scan another's. By running honeypots on diverse infrastructure, we observe a wider cross-section of malicious activity than a network concentrated in a single data center would.

The result: global threat intelligence coverage at a fraction of the cost, which is part of why SikkerAPI can offer paid plans starting at $7/month and a free tier with 1,000 daily IP reputation lookups.

What This Means for IP Reputation Accuracy

If you're using SikkerAPI's IP reputation API, IP blacklist downloads, or our Nginx and iptables/ipset firewall integrations, you're now getting threat intelligence informed by 44 sensors instead of 38. More sensors means:

• Higher confidence scores for malicious IPs observed across multiple regions
• Faster detection of new scanning and brute-force campaigns
• Better coverage of region-specific threats that a smaller network would miss
• More cross-sensor corroboration, which directly strengthens IP reputation scoring reliability

Combined with community reports from Fail2Ban, CSF, and manual submissions across 16 report categories, the additional honeypot data feeds directly into the evidence-weighted scoring algorithm that powers every API response and STIX/TAXII threat feed.

Explore the Threat Data

You can see real-time attack data from all 44 honeypot sensors on the threat landscape page, broken down by protocol and country of origin. Every IP reputation lookup shows which protocols were attacked, the specific behaviors observed, and the confidence score behind the assessment.

Run a free IP reputation check at https://sikkerapi.com — no account required. For automated blocking, see our Nginx and iptables/ipset integration guides, or connect your SIEM via our STIX/TAXII feed.