coldframe
Low-interaction honeypot for supermarket refrigeration controllers (Danfoss AK-SM 800A, Dixell XWEB 500)
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GITHUB · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 61 upvotes (top 53%) · 0 views
Niche: machine learning inference engines · 108 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- honeypot
- ics-security
- modbus
- threat-intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial A basic honeypot web and protocol listener is buildable, but a convincing emulation of specific Danfoss and Dixell controllers needs ICS protocol and firmware-level knowledge that vibe coding alone won't provide.
What it would actually take: Build a low-interaction service that answers Modbus, BACnet, or vendor HTTP and web-panel requests with realistic banners, register maps, and responses from the target devices. The hard part is faithful device fingerprinting, which requires reverse engineering real controllers or capturing authentic traffic, plus ICS security expertise to avoid detection and to keep the deception believable.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1089 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #565 of 1090 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 372 days after the earliest competitor.
- Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller · hn · 2026-11-07 · 288 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Einstein_Szilard_Refrigerator · github · 2026-10-28 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- openspindle · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Smol machines · hn · 2026-04-17 · 499 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Neuron Industries: The world's first purpose built industrial controller for AI · yc · 2026-07-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- vaivar · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- harness-zero · github · 2026-09-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- mcd-mcp-kit · github · 2026-10-23 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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