High Risk
IP address 198.235.24.48 is a critical-risk address associated with sustained hacking activity and web application reconnaissance detected across multiple automated honeypot sensors, accumulating 257 abuse reports over approximately eight months of observed malicious behavior.
The activity linked to this Google Cloud Platform address (AS396982) shows a consistent attack frequency rating of 7 out of 10, indicating persistent and repeated hostile engagement rather than isolated probes. The overwhelming majority of recent reports—17 of the categorized incidents—fall under general hacking activity, with additional documented web application attacks (2) and a single exploited host classification suggesting this infrastructure may itself be compromised and weaponized. All 257 reports originated from 20 distinct automated honeypot sensors, confirming broad detection coverage and reducing the likelihood of false positives. The 75% confidence score reflects solid analytical certainty based on the volume and consistency of observed attack patterns spanning from October 2025 through June 2026.
The dominant hacking classification encompasses unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability exploitation, and intrusion activities that pose direct threats to exposed network services. Web application attacks in this context indicate the IP is actively probing for weaknesses in web-facing software, including potential injection and file-inclusion vectors. The presence of an exploited host classification raises the possibility that this Google Cloud IP belongs to a third-party victim system commandeered as an unwitting attack platform, meaning the legitimate operator may be unaware their infrastructure is being weaponized for malicious purposes.
Site operators should treat connections from this address as definitively hostile and implement immediate blocking at the firewall or network perimeter level. Deploying or strengthening web application firewalls provides an additional layer of defense against the observed reconnaissance patterns. Enabling automated blocking tools such as fail2ban or equivalent intrusion-prevention solutions can proactively filter repeated connection attempts. Organizations receiving traffic from this IP should audit their exposed services for the vulnerabilities commonly associated with hacking and web application attack categories while considering outreach to Google Cloud's abuse reporting team regarding the potential compromised hosting environment.
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