Significant Threat
IP 45.82.78.104 is a high-risk address associated with active hacking operations, including exploitation attempts against exposed services and IoT infrastructure, with a threat level rating of 8 out of 10 and a confidence score of 87 percent based on 428 abuse reports logged over approximately eleven months.
Automated honeypot sensors and community reports have documented 428 total reports since August 2025, with the most recent activity observed in June 2026, indicating sustained offensive operations from this IP address. The dominant threat category is general hacking activity (18 recent reports), complemented by evidence that the address may itself be operating as an exploited host (2 reports) and conducting targeted attacks against Internet of Things devices (1 report). The IP originates from Germany under network operator Detai Prosperous Technologies Limited through ASN AS212512, and detection signatures have flagged Redis attack patterns, Suricata alerts indicating malformed TLS records, and broader malware or exploit activity targeting connected devices.
The concentration of Redis attack signatures and TLS anomalies suggests this actor is systematically probing for misconfigured caching services and exploiting weak transport security, while the IoT targeting indicates interest in compromising smart devices, cameras, or routers with weak default credentials or unpatched firmware. An exploited-host classification implies the address may be routing malicious traffic through a compromised intermediary, which complicates attribution but heightens the risk that blocking only this IP may not fully mitigate the underlying campaign. Organizations running exposed Redis instances, unpatched IoT devices, or relying solely on perimeter defenses face the most direct exposure.
Site operators should immediately block or rate-limit traffic from 45.82.78.104 at the firewall level, ensure Redis and similar services are not exposed to untrusted networks without authentication, and apply firmware updates to all IoT devices while changing default credentials. Implementing fail2ban or equivalent intrusion-prevention tools can automate dynamic blocking based on repeated authentication failures, and network segmentation should isolate IoT devices from critical infrastructure to limit lateral movement if a compromise occurs.
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