Maximum Danger
172.235.40.131 is a critical-risk IP address with a maximum threat level rating of 10/10 that has accumulated 385 abuse reports from automated honeypot sensors over approximately nine months, indicating persistent and systematic unauthorized access attempts against exposed network services.
The IP address originates from the United States and operates within Akamai Connected Cloud infrastructure under ASN AS63949. Detection data spans from August 2025 through May 2026, with a confidence score of 71 percent assigning strong evidentiary weight to the threat assessment. All 20 most recent reported incidents categorise the activity as general hacking behaviour, encompassing intrusion attempts, vulnerability exploitation and unauthorized access probing. The consistent engagement with honeypot sensors across this extended timeframe, combined with a moderate activity frequency rating of 5 out of 10, suggests an automated but targeted scanning operation rather than opportunistic mass scanning.
The hacking activity linked to 172.235.40.131 represents a spectrum of intrusion techniques aimed at compromising exposed services. These include reconnaissance probes to identify open ports and running services, exploitation attempts against known vulnerabilities, and attempts to abuse misconfigured systems. For operators running accessible services such as SSH, RDP, web applications or databases, this activity poses a concrete risk of credential compromise, data exfiltration or server takeover. The persistent nature of the connections indicates the address is part of an active campaign rather than isolated probing.
Site operators should implement immediate defensive measures including rate-limiting authentication endpoints, deploying automated abuse-detection tools such as fail2ban to block repeated offenders, enforcing strong multi-factor authentication on all remote-access services, and maintaining rigorous patch management schedules. Continuous monitoring of access logs for patterns consistent with the observed attack techniques will help identify any successful compromise attempts. Network-level blocking of this IP address is advisable given its confirmed malicious history and maximum threat classification.
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