Elevated Risk
IP address 137.184.112.192 is a high-risk digital asset linked to sustained hacking activity, with automated honeypot sensors recording 1395 reported incidents over approximately nine months between September 2025 and June 2026. Originating from DigitalOcean's cloud infrastructure in the United States (ASN 14061), this address carries a threat level of 8 out of 10 and a confidence score of 91%, indicating highly reliable attribution of malicious behavior. The IP's activity frequency of 8/10 reflects consistent, aggressive targeting patterns that warrant immediate defensive attention.
The volume and consistency of abuse reports paint a concerning picture of persistent automated intrusion attempts. All 20 recent reports cite hacking activity specifically, sourced exclusively from automated honeypot infrastructure designed to capture and analyze hostile connection attempts. The geographic origin in the United States within a major commercial cloud provider network is notable, as threat actors frequently exploit compromised cloud instances or abuse legitimate hosting services to mask their infrastructure. The timeframe of active detection spanning multiple months demonstrates that this is not transient scanning but sustained, targeted operations against exposed endpoints.
The dominant hacking classification encompasses a broad spectrum of unauthorized access attempts, including exploitation of known vulnerabilities, credential-based attacks, and probing for misconfigured services. Each attack connection represents a potential entry point for threat actors seeking to establish persistent access, exfiltrate sensitive data, or leverage the compromised system as a pivot point for further network intrusion. Organizations running unpatched services, exposed SSH or RDP interfaces, or vulnerable web applications face the highest exposure to the techniques associated with this threat profile.
Site operators should implement immediate blocking of this address at the network perimeter firewall or intrusion prevention system, combined with rate-limiting policies to mitigate brute-force techniques. Deploying automated dynamic blocking tools such as fail2ban can proactively respond to repeated attack patterns without manual intervention. Authentication hardening measures—including enforcement of strong, unique credentials, key-based authentication for administrative interfaces, and multi-factor authentication where feasible—substantially reduce the effectiveness of intrusion attempts. Regular vulnerability scanning and timely patching of exposed services eliminate the exploitation avenues these threat actors actively target.
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