Severe Risk
IP 185.243.5.114 is a critical-risk address that has generated 221 incident reports since its first appearance in December 2025, with automated honeypot sensors flagging it exclusively for hacking activity including intrusion attempts and exploitation attempts against exposed services.
The 221 reports against 185.243.5.114 originate entirely from 20 distinct automated honeypot sensors, producing a confidence score of 94% and an activity frequency rated 8 out of 10. This high-volume, concentrated detection pattern, mapped to Hong Kong and operated by RELIABLESITE (AS23470), suggests an actively managed hostile infrastructure rather than an opportunistic compromised endpoint. The temporal clustering within December 2025 and the exclusive focus on hacking vectors indicate deliberate, targeted scanning and exploitation efforts.
Hacking activity encompasses a broad range of unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability exploitation, and intrusion operations that can facilitate data breaches, service disruption, or further network compromise. For organizations running exposed services, this IP represents a direct threat vector as it may be conducting reconnaissance, attempting to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, or probing authentication mechanisms. The exclusive focus on hacking activity from this address suggests coordinated, automated attack campaigns aimed at systems with weak or misconfigured defenses.
Network defenders should immediately block 185.243.5.114 at the firewall or edge-device level and implement automated connection-throttling tools such as fail2ban to mitigate sustained automated intrusion attempts. Organizations should audit all exposed services for patch currency, enforce strong authentication requirements, and deploy intrusion detection or network monitoring to identify associated reconnaissance activity. Ongoing log analysis for connections originating from this network block can reveal whether any exploitation attempts have targeted internal systems.
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