Contributor: Kunal Gurtatta Mentors: Lorena Goldoni, Federico Foschini

Overview

As a Python developer and security enthusiast, I always wanted to contribute to open-source security projects. When I learned about GSoC from one of my seniors, I started searching for security organizations and came across Honeynet. They had just announced their ideas for this year’s GSoC, and one of them was BuffaLogs, which matched my tech stack perfectly. I began contributing in late Feb'25, submitting PRs to implement alerters and making small refactors to get familiar with the codebase. Since my early contributions focused on alerters, I decided to continue working on integrating more of them and improving the alerting logic in my proposal.

Contributor: Onunwa Goodness Mentors: Lorena Goldoni, Federico Foschini

My Google Summer of Code 2025 - The Honeynet Project (BuffaLogs)

September 1, 2025 officially marks the end of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 coding period. Over the past four months, I’ve had the privilege of contributing as a developer to The BuffaLogs Project under The Honeynet Project. It’s been four months of doing what I love most—building and shipping code.

We are happy to announce that we have been selected as an organization to participate in Google Summer of Code 2024! This will be the 15th time that Honeynet is participating in the Google Summer of Code program to accelerate the creation of information- and cyber security related tools that are free and open source software. We are now entering the community bonding phase during which students are encouraged to reach out and interact with organizations and start getting involved with potential projects. We strongly recommend to join our Discord.

Our dedicated Google Summer of Code (GSoC) participant, Abheek, has spent an impressive three-month duration program actively contributing to not one, but two distinct projects: IntelOwl and Buffalogs. Notably, Abheek undertook the responsibility of crafting the brand-new official website for IntelOwl throughout this period.

In light of this significant achievement, we believe it is only fitting to showcase his remarkable results and contributions within the official IntelOwl site, in which he discuses his journey as a designer/frontend developer, the tasks involved and the detailed contributions to both projects, including the revamping of IntelOwl’s website, implementing JWT authentication for Buffalogs, creating maps and graphs for BuffaLogs’ dashboard, and crafting a frontend guide for IntelOwl using react-joyride.

Our GSoC student Kumiszhan Dybyspayeva was working for three months under the supervision of Lukas Rist on Ochi, specifically on introducing new features such as event filtering using a DSL, persisting filters and sharing an event.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards Ochi and some considerations for the future.

Our GSoC student Aditya Narayan Sinha was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on introducing playbooks that define automated actions associated with the observation of a specific indicator of compromise.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

Our GSoC student Aditya Pratap Singh was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on bulk analysis, single sign-on, and major improvements to the configurations and secrets.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

Our GSoC student Hussain Khan was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically on a Go client library, allowing developers to integrate with the IntelOwl API in their solutions.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.

Our GSoC student Hariom Chaturved was working for three months on the network capture analysis tool PcapMonkey, specifically introducing live capture, testing architecture, and the introduction of zkg support.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards PcapMonkey and some considerations for the future.

Our GSoC student Shubham Pandey was working for three months under the supervision of Matteo Lodi on the OSINT platform IntelOwl, specifically introducing the connector manager allowing for powerful integrations with external data sources.

Read on for an overview of their achievements and how they successfully contributed towards IntelOwl and some considerations for the future.