High Risk
IP 86.54.31.42, allocated to Black HOST Ltd in Canada (AS12989), presents a high-risk threat profile with a threat level of 8/10 and a confidence score of 76 percent, supported by 172 abuse reports collected from automated honeypot sensors across an eight-month observation window from August 2025 through April 2026. Despite a current activity frequency rated at zero out of ten, the volume and diversity of historical malicious activity classify this address as dangerous and worthy of continued monitoring or blocking.
The aggregate evidence reveals a persistent threat actor rather than a transient scanner. Of the 172 total reports, hacking-related intrusion attempts account for the dominant threat category, supplemented by isolated instances of IoT-targeted exploitation activity and SMTP abuse consistent with spam distribution. The reports originate from 20 distinct automated honeypot sensors, indicating that the hostile activity is distributed broadly enough to generate multi-source confirmation. The eight-month reporting span demonstrates sustained malicious intent rather than opportunistic, one-off scanning.
Hacking activity in this context refers to generalized intrusion attempts, vulnerability probing, and unauthorized access campaigns against exposed services. When combined with IoT-targeted exploitation patterns, this suggests the address may participate in campaigns to compromise networked devices, cameras, or routers through known weaknesses. The SMTP abuse component indicates the infrastructure may also function in mass email distribution, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. Together, these capabilities represent a versatile threat capable of supporting multiple attack vectors against diverse target systems.
Site operators should treat 86.54.31.42 as a blocked or heavily rate-limited source. Implementing fail2ban or equivalent dynamic blocklist tools can automate this response based on repeated authentication failures. Exposed services should enforce strong, unique credentials and disable default administrative interfaces where possible. Network segmentation isolating IoT devices from critical infrastructure limits the impact of any successful compromise. Ongoing monitoring of inbound connection attempts from this address, combined with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication, provides layered defense against the observed threat mix.
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