High Risk
IP 185.218.138.10 is a high-risk address associated with reconnaissance activity, recording 882 total abuse reports with a threat severity rating of 7 out of 10. Automated honeypot sensors detected the IP conducting port-scanning operations across a three-month window from March to May 2026, indicating sustained probing behaviour targeting exposed network infrastructure. The elevated activity frequency score of 8 out of 10 and 91 percent confidence rating confirm this is not an isolated incident but rather a persistent threat actor operating from United States infrastructure.
Analysis of the report data reveals that all 882 documented incidents — sourced exclusively from 20 automated honeypot sensors — fall under the port-scan category. The Ciscoasa port scan pattern detected in these reports is consistent with automated reconnaissance tooling designed to identify open services and potential entry points on target systems. The IP is registered to Vlad Cojuhari under ASN AS205997, and while the geographic origin is listed as the United States, such registration details can be easily manipulated to obscure true provenance. The concentration of identical detection signatures across multiple independent sensors strongly suggests coordinated, systematic scanning rather than accidental traffic.
Port scanning represents the initial phase of most targeted attacks, mapping exposed services such as remote desktop, SSH or web interfaces before attempting exploitation. For organisations with internet-facing systems, this reconnaissance activity significantly increases exposure to follow-on attacks if vulnerabilities are discovered during the scan. The sustained volume and frequency of reports from this address indicate an actor actively cataloguing potential targets rather than opportunistic noise.
Defensive measures include implementing strict firewall rules to limit exposed services, deploying fail2ban or similar tools to automatically block repeat offending IPs after threshold violations, monitoring network logs for scanning patterns such as rapid sequential port hits, and restricting access to management interfaces to trusted IP ranges where feasible. These steps reduce the attack surface available to reconnaissance operations originating from this address.
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