Is it possible for a hacker who has entered a honeypot (running in a virtual machine e.g. virtualbox), to attack real computers on a LAN?
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You don't use a honeypot to attack. Yes you can configure a virtual machine to be in the same subnet of the other machines in the LAN. – Ulkoma Oct 13 '14 at 20:43
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You can certainly use a virtual machine to launch attacks on a LAN, but it would not be a honeypot. A honeypot, by definition, is a machine designed to BE attacked, not a machine designed to attack. – tlng05 Oct 13 '14 at 20:47
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Sorry did not write the question properly. Have edited the question to make it clearer – Jaryd Oct 13 '14 at 21:07
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Using Does a Virtual Machine stop malware from doing harm? & Breaking out of the virtualization layer as a reference.
It could be possible. It would require a misconfigured VM network, shared access between the host and the VM or some other type of exploit to break out of the VM.
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