The alert screamed at 3:02 AM: CRITICAL TURBINE OVERSPEED. Our control room scrambled as pressure gauges spiked into the red zone. But deep in the server room, I smiled. The "turbine" was 47 lines of Python code, and the Russian hackers biting our decoy had just lit up their entire operation like a Christmas tree.

After suffering three devastating breaches, we built a parallel universe inside our network:

• Fake SCADA systems simulating power grid controls
• Decoy employee databases with honeytoken credentials
• Bleeding-edge “vulnerabilities” that didn’t exist in production

The trap sprang when attackers penetrated our “water treatment plant” subnet:

# Our canary-triggered alert system  
if ssh_bruteforce_attempts > 5:  
    activate_fake_plc(attacker_ip)  
    log_every_keystroke()  
    alert_soc("BEAR TRAPPED")

Not Your Grandfather’s Decoy: