Marco Pedrinazzi

Tales of an Ollama Honeypot (Part 2): LLMJacking

I built a honeypot that emulates an Ollama server and deployed it on a VPS. A few days later, it appeared on Censys and Shodan. From 20 March 2026 at 03:10:40 UTC to 21 April 2026 at 08:16:47 UTC, the honeypot recorded 6461 events involving Ollama API endpoints, from 324 unique source IP addresses, using 73 unique user agents. I decided to split the analysis into two parts: part one is available here and it covers the most common abuse patterns that I observed. This part will be about LLMJacking.

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