Honeypot hit?

I got this system warning earlier today:


Honeypot hit detected from 192.168.1.197

 1c:91:80:eb:41:63

Today at 7:51


When I check the MAC adress this comes up:


Result for: 1C:91:80:EB:41:63Address Prefix1C:91:80Vendor / CompanyApple, Inc.Start Address1C9180000000End Address1C9180FFFFFFCompany Address1 Infinite Loop Cupertino Ca 95014 Us


Infinite Loop is an Apple Store or reseller of some kind. Should I be worried?


Feedback will be greatly appreciated!

MacBook Air

Posted on Jul 3, 2022 04:07 AM

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Jul 3, 2022 12:20 PM in response to perfriberg

The media access control (MAC, as differentiated from Mac, the computer brand) address shown for 192.168.1.197 is from a block assigned to Apple, or is being spoofed. MAC addresses are routinely spoofed.


As mentioned above, what happened here is not reported in what was posted, past a source IP either involved or spoofed, and a MAC address involved or spoofed.


So… not much to go on. Check with the honeypot doc, vendor, and/or support folks for what actually happened here.


As for running a honeypot, how effective this one might be differentiating nefarious activity is unclear. And how much time you want to spend monitoring and filtering and re-configuring to tune the reports and/or to improve filtering of spurious or benign activity, too.

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