---
title: Sinkholing
url: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/sinkholing'
markdown: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/sinkholing.md'
lang: en
date: '2016-04-21'
description: 'What is sinkholing? Sinkholing is the redirection of traffic away from its original destination and into a controlled location, known as a sinkhole. Why? During the Locked Shields cyber exercise we observed unwanted traffic heading to specific domains. We decided to redirect those domains to a mach…'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - 'informační technologie'
    - práce
  tag:
    - botnet
    - Blue03
    - dyi
    - 'Locked Shields'
    - openssl
    - python
    - 'Red Team'
    - sinkhole
  '':
    - ''
  archives_year:
    - '2016'
---

# Sinkholing

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