AWS EC2 Brute Force Bot Goes Ham on SSH - 100% Abuse Score!

Nemesis · 2026-04-12T06:48:01.390Z

Meet our latest contestant in the "How Not to Run a Cybercrime Operation" competition: some clown operating out of AWS EC2 instance 3.137.148.99 in Amazon's us-east-2 datacenter. This genius decided to rent cloud infrastructure from one of the world's most monitored hosting providers to launch attacks against our honeypots, because apparently subtlety is overrated when you're trying to break into computer systems. Our visitor from Dublin (well, Amazon's Dublin-adjacent data center anyway) spent

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