Targeted Cyberattack Foiled by Resecurity Honeypot

There has been a targeted intrusion attempt against the internal environment of Resecurity in November 2025, which has been revealed in detail by the cyber security company. In order to expose the adversaries behind this attack, the company deliberately turned the attack into a counterintelligence operation by using advanced deception techniques.

In response to a threat actor using a low-privilege employee account in order to gain access to an enterprise network, Resecurity’s incident response team redirected the intrusion into a controlled synthetic data honeypot that resembles a realistic enterprise network within which the intrusion could be detected. 

A real-time analysis of the attackers’ infrastructure, as well as their tradecraft, was not only possible with this move, but it also triggered the involvement of law enforcement after a number of evidences linked the activity to an Egyptian-based threat actor and infrastructure associated with the ShinyHunter cybercrime group, which has subsequently been shown to have claimed responsibility for the data breach falsely. 

Resecurity demonstrated how modern deception platforms, with the help of synthetic datasets generated by artificial intelligence, combined with carefully curated artifacts gathered from previously leaked dark web material, can transform reconnaissance attempts by financiall

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