Nearly 700,000 cyber attacks attempted on Mumbai cloud server honeypot

This was the second biggest attack spread over a month, after Ohio's 950,000 attacks in a time span

Cybercriminals attacked a Mumbai cloud server honeypot with more than 678,000 attempts over a 30-day period, second to a US-based honeypot at Ohio that recorded more than 950,000 login attempts during the same period.

A honeypot is a system designed  to mimic likely targets of cyberattackers, so that security researchers can monitor cybercriminal behaviour. The first login attempt on the Mumbai honeypot was made within 55 minutes and 11 seconds of going live.

According to a Sophos report titled 'Exposed: Cyberattacks on Cloud Honeypots', more than five million attacks were attempted on the global network of honeypots within a 30-day period, demonstrating