High Risk
IP 137.184.190.205 is a high-risk address associated with persistent hacking activity, having accumulated 2,701 abuse reports from automated honeypot sensors with a threat level rating of 8 out of 10 and an activity frequency score of 8 out of 10, indicating sustained offensive operations over an extended period spanning from September 2025 through June 2026.
The IP originates from a DigitalOcean ASN (AS14061) infrastructure based in the United States, and its abuse report volume of 2,701 incidents represents a substantial threat footprint that significantly exceeds typical background noise levels. All 20 of the most recent threat reports consistently cite hacking as the dominant malicious category, with detection occurring exclusively through automated honeypot sensors rather than community-sourced reporting. The 79% confidence score reflects that while the malicious activity is well-documented and pattern-consistent, a small percentage of the observed connections could potentially originate from benign automation or misconfiguration. The consistent detection pattern across multiple sensors over approximately nine months demonstrates that this address is not a transient or opportunistic actor but rather a persistent presence conducting repeated intrusion attempts against exposed network endpoints.
Hacking activity in this context encompasses systematic intrusion attempts, vulnerability exploitation and unauthorized access probing against services that are publicly accessible on the internet. The concrete risk to an exposed service includes credential compromise through brute-force or dictionary attacks, exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities to gain system-level access, and potential lateral movement within a network once initial access is obtained. An address with 2,701 reported incidents and sustained activity over months is almost certainly running automated attack tooling that scans the internet continuously, cycling through target addresses and services in search of exploitable weaknesses.
Site operators should implement immediate defensive measures including blocking or rate-limiting connections from this address at the firewall level, enforcing strong authentication requirements on any publicly accessible login interfaces, deploying automated abuse-detection tools such as fail2ban to dynamically ban repeated offending IPs, and maintaining a rigorous patch management schedule to eliminate known vulnerabilities that this address may attempt to exploit.
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