High Risk
IP 16.58.56.214, allocated to Amazon Web Services under ASN AS16509 and registered to a United States-based entity, presents a high-risk threat profile with a threat level of 8/10 and a confidence score of 96%. This address has accumulated 2,336 total abuse reports from 20 independent automated honeypot sensors, reflecting sustained malicious activity over approximately four months between February and May 2026. With an activity frequency rated 8/10, the IP demonstrates persistent engagement in hostile network behaviour that warrants immediate defensive attention.
The dominant threat category associated with this address is general hacking activity, accounting for the overwhelming majority of recent reports alongside isolated instances of SMTP abuse, IoT targeting, exploited-host behaviour, and web application probing. Attack-pattern telemetry from detection sensors confirms repeated attack connections, Suricata alerts indicating one-directional protocol exploitation, ElasticPot web application reconnaissance, and SMTP spam/abuse signatures. The volume of reports, combined with the diversity of exploit vectors observed, suggests this IP may be operating as a compromised host within a larger botnet infrastructure or functioning as a dedicated scanning platform originating from Amazon's cloud environment.
The implications for exposed services are significant. A host emitting such a broad spectrum of attack patterns poses risks across multiple entry points, from traditional server SSH and RDP interfaces to web-facing applications and IoT device management interfaces. The confirmed web application probing suggests the operator is actively cataloguing potential targets for subsequent exploitation, while the SMTP abuse signals indicate possible involvement in phishing or malware distribution campaigns. Services accessible from this IP should be treated as encountering hostile reconnaissance and automated exploitation attempts.
Network operators should implement immediate blocking or rate-limiting measures against inbound connections from this address and monitor for any internal host communication patterns that might indicate lateral movement. Deploying or enhancing fail2ban rules, enforcing strong authentication requirements on exposed services, and ensuring intrusion detection systems are calibrated to flag the observed attack signatures will substantially reduce exposure. Regular review of access logs for this IP and neighbouring addresses within the same subnet will help determine whether the threat is isolated or part of a broader scanning campaign originating from the Amazon cloud infrastructure.
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