Maximum Danger
IP 46.22.210.99 is a critical-risk address associated with persistent hacking activity, flagged by automated honeypot sensors with a threat level of 10/10 despite a moderate confidence rating of 62 percent, making it a candidate for proactive blocking in exposed network environments.
The IP, hosted within Aktsiaselts WaveCom's AS34702 network in Estonia, has generated 162 total abuse reports, with all 20 of its most recent logged incidents consistently classified under the hacking threat category. Detection data indicates that automated honeypot infrastructure registered these attempts during January 2026, with a notably low activity frequency score of 0/10 suggesting burst-pattern behavior rather than sustained continuous scanning. The combination of high report volume and concentrated recent activity within a single reporting period indicates deliberate, targeted probing rather than incidental reconnaissance traffic.
The dominant hacking classification encompasses a broad range of intrusion techniques, including attempts to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, unauthorized access attempts against exposed services, and reconnaissance activity preceding potential compromise. Even with a confidence score below 70 percent, the volume of corroborating honeypot reports from a single detection source establishes a credible threat pattern that could precede credential theft, data exfiltration, or lateral movement if similar techniques are applied against production infrastructure with weaker security controls.
Site operators should consider implementing immediate blocking or strict rate-limiting for this source address at the network perimeter firewall level, deploying fail2ban or equivalent dynamic denial-of-service tooling to automatically ban repeat offenders, enforcing multi-factor authentication on all externally accessible authentication endpoints, and maintaining up-to-date intrusion detection signatures to identify and block the underlying exploitation patterns associated with this activity.