Elevated Risk
IP 64.62.197.227 is a high-risk address operating from Hurricane Electric's AS6939 network in the United States, with a threat level of 8/10 and 668 total abuse reports indicating sustained malicious activity dominated by general hacking intrusion attempts.
Automated honeypot sensors logged 20 distinct report sources attributing 19 hacking-category incidents and 1 exploited-host report to this IP between August 2025 and June 2026. The activity frequency score of 8/10 confirms persistent, ongoing engagement rather than opportunistic or transient behaviour. The 80% confidence score reflects substantial corroboration across multiple detection points, though some uncertainty remains about the full scope of operations. Network ownership traces to Hurricane Electric, a major US backbone provider whose IP space is frequently abused due to the provider's broad address allocation practices and historical use in scanning and attack infrastructure.
The dominant hacking classification encompasses a range of intrusion-modelled behaviour including unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability exploitation and general intrusion-pattern activity. Suricata intrusion-detection systems flagged "Applayer Detect protocol only one direction" events, suggesting this address is probing services with incomplete or asymmetric protocol handshakes—a common reconnaissance technique used to identify open ports or fingerprint vulnerable services. The single exploited-host report raises the possibility that this IP may itself belong to a compromised system being weaponised without its owner's knowledge, a scenario where a legitimate server has been co-opted into a botnet or attack relay. Combined with honeypot events documenting direct attack connections and malware or exploit-related activity, the pattern indicates an active threat actor performing sustained scanning and exploitation attempts against exposed services.
Site operators should block 64.62.197.227 at the firewall or network perimeter immediately given its elevated threat rating and report volume. Implement fail2ban or equivalent rate-limiting daemons to automatically ban repeated offending hosts engaging in brute-force or scanning patterns. Enforce strong authentication on all exposed services, particularly SSH and web-facing applications, and ensure systems are promptly patched to reduce successful exploitation surfaces. Consider notifying Hurricane Electric's abuse desk using standard routing contacts, as the exploited-host indicator may signal an compromised customer assignment requiring remediation. Monitor logs for the detected Suricata signatures and protocol-anomaly patterns to identify any successful intrusion attempts stemming from this source.
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