HoneyGo is waiting for you, ... just click it.

DEFCON Group DCG518 wants to share an invite with the community. This Saturday, April 25th 2026 we are presenting:

#Making honey out of Go or how I stopped worrying and vibed

Honeypots are one of those beautifully deceptive tools in security, that have long been a staple in offensive security and threat intelligence, quietly sitting in the dark, luring attackers in, capturing their tools, tactics, and mistakes. Honeypots provide an organization with proactive, high fidelity defense layer by creating a decoy targets that simulates real IT assets. They are used in everything from red team assessments to large scale intelligence data collection, giving us a front row seat to real world adversary behavior in the wild without waiting to become a victim.

Honeygo started as a simple experiment: what happens if you build a modern, lightweight honeypot from scratch in Go? Somewhere along the way after a few rounds sparring with Gemini 3, that experiment turned into a fully functional system. In this talk, we will walk through the journey from barebones scaffold to a working beta version of our honeypot, including design decisions, unexpected challenges, and a few things that broke in entertaining ways. Because it turns out, building a trap is easy, but building one that attackers don’t immediately outsmart is where things get interesting

Our New York Capital District group "DCG518" will have a gathering this time the Saturday, April 25th 2026 and it will be at the Guilderland Public Library.

More information about our group and future events on our site https://dc518.github.io

Everyone is welcome!