Dutch security expert Willem de Groot wants to set up honeypots to track cyber-attacks on e-commerce sites. He says he’s not targeting specific platforms, but only the domain. De Groot plans to migrate the domain to his own server, recreate the store’s public template, but run a special backend that exposes a wide attack surface. He plans to make the data recorded from his honeypot’s backend and make it available as a blacklist, for free. The number of hacked websites grew by 32% in 2016, compared to 2015.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/this-security-expert-wants-to-turn-defunct-online-stores-into-malware-honeypots/