Substantial Risk
IP 3.149.59.26 is a high-risk address with a threat level of 8/10 that has generated 8,795 total abuse reports and is associated with confirmed hacking activity and exploited-host behavior originating from Amazon AWS infrastructure (AS16509, AMAZON-02) in the United States. The volume of community and automated honeypot reports covering the August 2025 to February 2026 timeframe is substantial, indicating sustained hostile engagement against exposed services over approximately six months.
The detection landscape for this IP demonstrates persistent adversarial interest, with all 22 categorized threat reports attributed to automated honeypot sensors across 20 distinct sources. The reported activity includes direct attack connections and malware or exploit-related traffic patterns, consistent with unauthorized intrusion attempts rather than benign scanning. The discrepancy between the high report count and the reported activity frequency score of 0/10 suggests that while the IP generates persistent reports, the actual connection attempts may be intermittent or the measurement methodology weighs recency differently than cumulative volume.
The dominant threat classification of Hacking encompasses a broad spectrum of intrusion activity, including vulnerability exploitation and unauthorized access attempts, while the secondary Exploited Host designation indicates this address may be operating as a compromised platform being leveraged by threat actors without the infrastructure owner's awareness. For network operators and service administrators, this combination signals a double risk: the IP itself poses an active threat to exposed services, and its potential compromise status means traffic from this address could originate from botnets, tunneling infrastructure, or other adversarial relay systems rather than directly from the original compromised host.
Site operators should implement immediate defensive measures including IP-based blocking or rate-limiting for connections originating from 3.149.59.26, enforcement of strong authentication mechanisms on exposed services to resist brute-force and credential-based attacks, and deployment of intrusion detection signatures aligned with the reported attack connection and exploit patterns. Regular review of honeypot telemetry feeds can help maintain updated blocking rules. Organizations hosting infrastructure within AWS should consider reporting this IP to Amazon's abuse handling team if evidence suggests the address is part of a compromised Amazon-managed resource, as provider-level action may be necessary to remediate the exploited host condition.
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