Maximum Danger
IP 207.174.1.152 is a high-risk address operating from United States infrastructure (ASN AS398019, DYNU) that has generated 7,840 abuse reports and carries a maximum threat level rating of 10/10, indicating it poses a severe risk to any exposed authentication service.
Analysis of the 7,840 reports — sourced from automated honeypot sensors — reveals a concentrated focus on two threat categories: Brute-Force attacks (20 recent reports) and Hacking activity (20 recent reports). The IP was first reported in December 2025, with continued reporting activity through March 2026. The reported attack patterns show repeated VNC (Virtual Network Computing) authentication brute-force attempts, accompanied by Suricata stream anomalies including spurious retransmissions and broken acknowledgment packets, suggesting a high-volume, automated scanning and credential-guessing campaign. Despite the extremely high report count, the activity frequency metric reads 0/10, which may indicate intermittent or burst-based behavior rather than continuous sustained traffic.
Brute-force attacks on VNC services represent a concrete and immediate threat: an attacker systematically guessing VNC access credentials could gain unsupervised remote graphical desktop access to a target system. Combined with the hacking indicators showing stream-level manipulation and protocol evasion techniques, this IP is engaged in sophisticated, automated intrusion activity designed to circumvent basic detection while systematically probing for weak or default VNC passwords across exposed hosts. The volume of reports strongly suggests this address is part of a coordinated credential-stuffing or password-spraying operation.
Site operators with exposed VNC services should immediately block this IP at the firewall level and implement automated blocking via defensive tools such as fail2ban to handle recurring attempts. Enforcing strong, non-default passwords alongside multi-factor authentication for any remote access service dramatically reduces brute-force success rates. Rate-limiting authentication attempts and deploying intrusion detection signatures for anomalous VNC stream behavior provide additional layers of defence against this class of automated attack.
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