Chameleon: An Adaptive AI-Driven Honeypot Architecture Using Threat-Calibrated Particle Swarm Optimization and Semantic Deception Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees
Chameleon is an openly distributed adaptive honeypot that integrates: a BiLSTM classifier achieving 99.61% accuracy across seven threat categories at ~2 ms CPU latency; a locally deployed Qwen3.5-0.8B model delivering 90% generation accuracy at 4.5 ms latency; and two meta-heuristic engines.