Maximum Danger
IP 176.65.149.64 is a maximum-threat-level address originating from the Netherlands that has generated 5,257 abuse reports from automated honeypot sensors over approximately eleven months of sustained hostile activity, making it one of the most prolific confirmed sources of hacking operations in recent public threat-intelligence records.
Community reports and automated honeypot detections recorded IP 176.65.149.64 persistently across the period from August 2025 through June 2026, indicating persistent rather than transient malicious behavior. The address belongs to AS51396, operated by Pfcloud UG, and carries an activity frequency score of 8 out of 10 alongside an 88 percent confidence rating that the observed behavior represents genuine threats rather than misclassification. All 20 of the most recent reported threat categories classify the activity as hacking, with specific detection of unauthorized SSH sessions established on atypical ports, consistent with structured intrusion attempts and vulnerability exploitation campaigns.
The dominant hacking classification for this IP reflects systematic unauthorized-access attempts against exposed services, with the detected SSH activity on unusual ports indicating deliberate evasion of basic signature-based defenses. This pattern suggests the operator behind 176.65.149.64 conducts persistent probing for misconfigured or under-secured network endpoints, exploiting weak authentication mechanisms and known vulnerabilities in exposed daemons. The sheer volume of reports within the observed timeframe indicates automated tooling capable of sustained attack campaigns against large numbers of targets.
Site operators should treat this IP as a confirmed hostile source and implement blocking at the network perimeter or firewall level. SSH services, particularly those operating on non-standard ports, warrant immediate hardening through key-based authentication, strict allowlisting of source addresses where feasible, and deployment of automated abuse-detection tools such as fail2ban to dynamically ban repeat offenders. Maintaining current patches on all exposed services and monitoring logs for connection attempts matching the observed attack patterns will reduce exposure to the intrusion vectors this address has demonstrated.
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