Mizton Labs

Who are we?

Mizton Labs is an independent, open research cybersecurity group organized by security professionals with diverse backgrounds, including DFIR, Threat Hunting, System Administration, Threat Intelligence, and Cyber Deception/Honeypots. The team has its roots in diverse initiatives from its collaborators between 2010-2023, however the project was structured and launched in 2024. It was during early 2025 when it was formally established.

Mizton Labs goals

• Applied research in Cybersecurity
• Open/Free training
• Short-term scholarships for students (development projects)
• Participation in events (conferences, seminars, workshops, CTFs)
• Open collaboration with other non-profit and academic organizations
• Open posibilities for collaboration with private/commercial entities

Main Focus Areas

• Network Security: Monitoring, Forensics
• Deception and Honeypot Research & Development
• Threat Detection Engineering
• Malware Analysis, Sandbox and Virtual Labs
• AI and CyberSecurity (LLM-based deception/honeypot, LLM Security, AIOps)

Collaboration for the past years

Mizton Labs is currently collaborating closely with some other open communities and initiatives of diverse topics including Cybersecurity Research, Deception and Honeypot technologies and NLP technologies for low-resource languages. See our Collaboration section to know more. If you are part of an open-research, academic or volunteering community/organization, please reach us to look for collaboration opportunities.

• 2020 - present: ElotlMX (IT Security Infrastructure and DevOps/AIOps)
• 2024 - present: Honenynet UNAMex Lab (Chapter based in Mexico City part of The Honeynet Project)

Our History

The founders and members of Mizton Labs are seasoned security professionals who have been active in the industry for many years. With similar backgrounds, they have participated in open communities and worked in both academia and industry since 2008. Mizton Labs traces its roots back to Mexico City, where the core members pursued their education and professional development through organizations such as UNAM and UNAM-CERT. These institutions were instrumental in launching several key cybersecurity projects and initiatives, including:

• Plan de Sensores de Tráfico Malicioso (PSTM) - Malicious Traffic Sensor Network
• UNAM-Darknet - A large scale Honeypot/Sinkhole network (50-70K Public IP addresses with dynamic routing)
• UNAM Security Telescope

Over the years, members have worked in various organizations and countries, united by a shared vision: to create an open research community that serves as a foundation for new cybersecurity projects and initiatives. Mizton Labs aims to facilitate the development of knowledge, tools, and talent through applied research and collaboration.

The core idea of Mizton Labs is to be an open community that collaborates with other open initiatives and organizations.

While not originally the primary focus of the Lab, due to the relevance of emerging cybersecurity trends, Mizton Labs is also open to partnering with any organization committed to knowledge creation and impactful cybersecurity initiatives.

Timeline

Mizton Labs is inspired by earlier initiatives in which the core founders participated since 2008. However, the motivation for creating a new organization was to broaden its scope to international participation and focus entirely on cybersecurity research and open collaboration.

• 2016 : Initial collaboration as informal team with other communities, specifically with ElotlMX.
• 2020 : Mizton Labs infrastructure is born. Mizton Labs was still informal team, however, it had a more structured collaboration with other open communities.
• 2024 : Mizton Labs initiative is formally discussed to grow as open community. As a first achievement, based on the context and location of the initial collaborators, its first spin-off project is born: Honeynet UNAMex Lab, a security team based in Mexico.
• 2025 (January) : Javier Santillan formalized the new Mizton Labs initiative with the following key goals:
  • To be an open community
  • To serve as a foundation for cybersecurity projects
  • To provide open and free training and scholarships for students to develop projects and gain experience
  • To strengthen and expand collaboration across cybersecurity initiatives and connect with international organizations

The main roadmap aims to grow during Q2 2025, and consolidation throughout 2026, guided by the four foundational goals outlined above.

We look forward to seeing this project grow.

Our Vision as Open Community

Mizton Labs is grounded in over two decades of experience from its members. Our team includes professionals and researchers from academic, operational, engineering, and teaching backgrounds—across both academia and industry.

We welcome:

• Researchers
• Students
• Educators
• Volunteers

If you’re passionate about cybersecurit and open research and collaboration, ’s a place for you here.

📫 Interested in joining or collaborating?
Stay tuned. You can reach out to us at [email protected]