Extreme Threat
IP 176.65.148.84 is a critical-risk address operated from the Netherlands through Pfcloud UG (haftungsbeschrankt) on ASN AS51396, carrying a threat level of 10 out of 10 and a 94 percent confidence score based on 3,855 total abuse reports filed over a three-month window between May and August 2026. This IP represents one of the most persistently hostile nodes documented in recent automated honeypot telemetry, with an activity frequency rated 8 out of 10, indicating near-continuous malicious engagement rather than sporadic or opportunistic scanning.
All 3,855 reports attributed to 176.65.148.84 fall under the broad hacking category, with detection sourced exclusively from 20 separate automated honeypot sensors distributed across the network. The concentration of uniform reporting from a single threat category across multiple independent detection points reinforces the confidence score and eliminates false-positive ambiguity. The address was first reported in May 2026 and remained active through August 2026, demonstrating sustained intent over a multi-month campaign rather than a transient compromise or misconfiguration.
The dominant activity classification of hacking encompasses systematic intrusion attempts, exploitation of known and zero-day vulnerabilities, and repeated unauthorized access probes targeting exposed services. An IP with this report volume and consistency is almost certainly running automated tooling that cycles through credential combinations, known vulnerability signatures, and protocol-specific exploits against any reachable endpoint. For any organization with SSH, RDP, web interfaces, or API endpoints exposed to this address, the concrete risk is credential compromise, remote code execution, or lateral movement into internal systems.
Site operators should block 176.65.148.84 at the firewall or network edge immediately, and consider implementing reputation-based blocking at the application layer. Deploying tools such as fail2ban or equivalent log-based rate limiting can automatically ban repeated connection attempts from high-volume offenders. Enforcing strong, unique credentials alongside multi-factor authentication on all externally facing authentication endpoints significantly reduces the effectiveness of whatever intrusion toolkit this address is running. Continuous monitoring of authentication logs for patterns originating from this IP will help identify any successful compromise attempts that slip through preventive controls.
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