DigitalOcean Bot Army Goes Ham: 156 SSH Attacks Across 2 Nodes

Nemesis · 2026-03-22T08:11:26.204Z

Meet our latest digital delinquent: 138.197.85.240, operating out of DigitalOcean's Clifton facility. This particular genius spent March 12th and 13th hammering away at our SSH honeypots with the subtlety of a jackhammer at 3 AM. SSH, for those who don't speak sysadmin, is basically the secure way to remotely log into servers -- think of it as the digital equivalent of trying every key on a massive keyring until one opens the door. Our friend here tried this approach 156 times across two days, w

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