Severe Risk
IP 202.188.47.41, registered to TM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SDN. BHD. in Malaysia, is a critical-risk address with a 10/10 threat level and 168 total abuse reports filed against it, representing a persistent and active threat to internet-facing services. The IP's 96% confidence score reflects highly reliable detection by automated honeypot sensors over a four-month observation window spanning February through May 2026, with a sustained activity frequency that underscores its ongoing malicious intent rather than transient scanning behaviour.
The overwhelming majority of reports—20 distinct incidents—categorise this IP's activity as SSH-based intrusion attempts, supplemented by two general hacking reports and one exploited-host classification. Automated honeypot sensors logged repeated SSH brute-force pattern violations, with fail2ban detecting 51 combined violations across multiple reporting periods. Suricata intrusion-detection signatures further confirmed active SSH sessions established on expected ports, indicating that connection attempts were not merely exploratory but represented sustained authentication attacks against target systems. The detection footprint across 20 independent honeypot sources provides robust corroboration that this is not isolated or accidental traffic.
SSH brute-force attacks target the Secure Shell protocol as an entry point into servers, exploiting weak or default credentials through rapid, automated credential guessing. The concrete risk is unauthorised server access, privilege escalation and potential data exfiltration or use of the compromised host as a launchpad for further attacks. The presence of an exploited-host classification alongside the brute-force activity raises the possibility that this IP itself may be operating from a previously compromised system within the TM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES network, compounding the risk that its traffic represents an escalating threat chain rather than a single attack vector.
Site operators with exposed SSH services should immediately block 202.188.47.41 at the network perimeter firewall. Enforce key-based authentication exclusively, disable password-based SSH login entirely and relocate the SSH service to a non-standard port to reduce automated targeting. Implementing fail2ban or equivalent dynamic blocklist tools with aggressive retry thresholds will automatically neutralise repeated connection attempts. Given the exploited-host classification, consider filing an abuse report with TM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SDN. BHD. so the operator can investigate whether their infrastructure is being weaponised without the owner's knowledge.
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