Extreme Threat
IP 103.162.198.133 is a high-risk address originating from India that has generated 232 abuse reports through automated honeypot sensors, indicating sustained malicious activity linked primarily to hacking intrusion attempts. The IP operates within AS153897 under I PLUS NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED and carries the maximum threat score of 10 out of 10, though the 62% confidence rating reflects some uncertainty in attributing all observed behaviour definitively to the reported threat category.
Detection data confirms that honeypot sensors recorded 20 recent events categorised as hacking activity, with all reports attributed to automated honeypot infrastructure rather than direct community submissions. The activity window is confined to January 2026 based on available records, suggesting a concentrated burst of scanning or intrusion activity during that period. The 232 total reports significantly outnumber the 20 categorised events in recent submissions, indicating either historical cumulative abuse or additional unattributed malicious behaviour. The activity frequency metric of zero suggests that while report volume is elevated, the temporal distribution of detected connections may be sporadic or concentrated in specific observation windows rather than continuous.
The hacking classification encompasses general intrusion attempts, vulnerability exploitation, and unauthorized access probing against exposed services. This pattern poses a concrete threat to any exposed SSH, Telnet, or web-facing services, where automated tools commonly attempt credential stuffing, brute-force attacks, or exploitation of known vulnerabilities. The honeypot detections specifically reference attack connection events, indicating the IP actively initiated connections to target systems rather than responding to incoming requests, which is characteristic of external scanning and targeting operations.
Site operators should block or restrict traffic from this address at the firewall level and implement strict ingress filtering based onASN and geolocation. Deploying tools such as fail2ban can automatically ban IPs exhibiting brute-force patterns, while enforcing strong authentication, disabling unused services, and maintaining current patches for exposed software reduces vulnerability to the intrusion techniques this address has demonstrated. Continuous monitoring of authentication logs for source IPs in this range will help identify any successful compromise attempts that may have evaded initial detection.
