Severe Risk
IP address 216.180.246.20 is a critical-risk address linked to sustained web application probing and hacking activity, with 223 total abuse reports filed against it over a six-month observation window. Originating from a United States-based network operated by IPXO (AS834), this IP has been flagged by automated honeypot sensors as actively scanning for web-facing vulnerabilities and attempting unauthorized access. The threat level of 10/10 reflects the diversity and persistence of its observed attack patterns.
Community reports and automated honeypot detections have logged 223 unique incidents attributed to 216.180.246.20, with the most recent submissions dated March 2026 and the earliest back to September 2025. Of the categorized reports, 14 document web application attack behavior while 6 reference general hacking activity. Detection systems captured Suricata stream anomalies indicating repeated connection attempts with sequence irregularities, along with general web application probing events. The attack frequency metric of 0/10 may reflect gaps between active scanning campaigns rather than an absence of malicious intent, given the sustained report volume from 20 independent sensor sources.
Web application attacks targeting this address suggest systematic reconnaissance for vulnerabilities such as those listed in the OWASP Top 10, including injection flaws, authentication weaknesses, and misconfiguration exploits. The concurrent hacking activity indicates the operator is not limited to a single intrusion methodology but is running a broader campaign against exposed services. For any organization with HTTP/HTTPS ports accessible to this traffic, the risk includes potential data exfiltration, service disruption, or lateral movement within internal networks if initial footholds are established.
Defensive measures should include deploying a web application firewall to filter suspicious request patterns, implementing strict rate-limiting on authentication endpoints to disrupt credential-based attacks, and reviewing access logs for any interactions matching the reported probe signatures. Systems should be kept current with security patches, and monitoring tools such as fail2ban can be configured to automatically block repeat offending addresses based on honeypot-sourced intelligence. Blocking or challenge-laying this IP at the network perimeter eliminates it as an active reconnaissance vector.
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