Maximum Danger
IP 117.68.74.141, registered to China Telecom's AS140527 network infrastructure in China, is assessed as a critical-risk address with a threat level of 10/10, having accumulated 230 independent abuse reports from automated honeypot sensors during August 2025 alone. This concentration of hostile activity within a single month positions the IP as a significant and ongoing threat to exposed network services.
The detection data reveals 230 separate incidents attributed to this address across 20 distinct honeypot sensors, indicating systematic and distributed scanning behavior rather than isolated probing. Despite a moderate confidence score of 59% and an activity frequency metric rated at 0/10, the substantial report volume demonstrates persistent hostile intent originating from China Telecom's infrastructure. The narrow timeframe of first and last reports both falling within August 2025 suggests concentrated campaign activity during that period.
Hacking activity, the sole reported threat category, encompasses unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability exploitation, and intrusion behaviors targeting exposed services. Each detected attempt represents a potential entry point for data exfiltration, service disruption, or further network compromise. Even moderate-frequency threats pose material risk when they target unpatched or misconfigured services, as successful exploitation can grant adversaries persistent access or pivot capabilities to internal systems.
Site operators should implement blocklist-based filtering for this IP address and correlating AS140527 ranges where feasible, configure fail2ban or equivalent tools to auto-ban repeat offenders, enforce strong authentication with multi-factor authentication on all exposed entry points, and maintain timely patching cycles to reduce vulnerability surface. Continuous monitoring of abuse feeds will help identify if this address re-emerges under different attribution.
