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IP 47.74.52.128 is a critical-risk address with a 10/10 threat level, linked to 3,651 total abuse reports and confirmed hacking activity detected between August and October 2025. Operating from Japanese IP space under Alibaba US Technology Co., Ltd. (ASN AS45102), this IP represents a persistent intrusion threat despite its moderate 61% confidence score, which reflects the inherent challenges in attributing automated attack infrastructure definitively to a single actor.
The volume of reports—3,651 from automated honeypot sensors across a compressed three-month window between August and October 2025—indicates sustained hostile reconnaissance and exploitation attempts. Its reported activity frequency of 0/10 is notable: while the sheer number of reports suggests the IP has been highly active historically, this metric may indicate that recent probing has tapered or that the address cycles through short bursts of concentrated scanning. The network operator, Alibaba US Technology Co., Ltd., provides cloud infrastructure commonly abused as a launch platform due to its global reach and relative anonymity, making it a frequent source of both legitimate and malicious traffic patterns.
The dominant threat category—hacking—encompasses unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability scanning, and exploitation probing against exposed services. This IP's sustained engagement with honeypot infrastructure confirms active interest in compromising target systems. The concrete risk involves credential stuffing against SSH and administrative interfaces, exploitation of unpatched software, and lateral movement should initial access succeed. With 3,651 reported incidents, the address has demonstrated persistent, automated targeting of infrastructure at scale, posing significant risk to any exposed management interfaces or vulnerable applications.
Defensive measures include implementing strict ingress filtering to block or throttle traffic from this address and similar cloud-hosted sources, deploying tools such as fail2ban or equivalent rate-limiting solutions to automated authentication attempts, enforcing key-based authentication and disabling password-based SSH access entirely, and maintaining rigorous patch management to reduce vulnerability exposure. Organizations should also monitor logs for the IP's scanning signatures and consider reputation-based blocking at the firewall or WAF layer to proactively deny connections.
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