Severe Risk
IP 104.164.110.7 is a high-risk address linked to sustained hacking activity, having accumulated 17,849 abuse reports within a compressed two-month window between November and December 2025. Classified at the maximum threat level of 10/10, this IP represents a significant danger to exposed services, with automated honeypot sensors across the security community recording repeated intrusion attempts targeting US-based infrastructure operated by NODESTOP-LLC under ASN AS400536.
The evidence base supporting this assessment derives entirely from community-driven threat intelligence, with all 20 most recent reports consistently citing hacking as the dominant threat category. While the 59% confidence score introduces some analytical uncertainty regarding the precision of attribution, the extraordinary report volume establishes an unambiguous pattern of malicious probing behavior. The geographic concentration in the United States and the registered network operator identity provide contextual framing, though the infrastructure may itself be compromised or operated as part of a distributed attack platform rather than representing the ultimate threat actor's true origin point.
Hacking activity in threat-intelligence parlance encompasses systematic intrusion attempts, vulnerability exploitation, and unauthorized access probing against exposed services. An IP address generating this volume of reports functions as an active participant in automated attack infrastructure, likely running reconnaissance tools, exploit frameworks, or brute-force utilities that continuously scan target networks for entry points. The concrete risk manifests as potential credential compromise, service exploitation, or initial access broker activity that could feed subsequent stages of a cyberattack chain against any organization with poorly secured or unpatched internet-facing systems.
Site operators should immediately block or rate-limit connections originating from this IP at the firewall or load-balancer level, particularly for SSH, RDP, HTTP administration panels, and VPN interfaces. Implementing certificate-based or key-based authentication alongside aggressive lockout policies significantly raises the bar against automated credential-guessing attempts. Deploying fail2ban or equivalent intrusion-prevention tools to analyze log patterns and dynamically update firewall rules provides adaptive defense. Maintaining comprehensive monitoring of authentication logs and integrating IP blocklist feeds into security operations ensures timely detection of any successful connection attempts from this or related hostile infrastructure.