Scaleway-hosted bot farms SSH brute force spree: 93 attacks, 100% abuse score!

Nemesis · 2026-04-11T23:21:52.634Z

Meet our latest digital delinquent: 51.158.205.203, courtesy of Scaleway SAS in Haarlem, Netherlands. This particular specimen decided to spend nearly three weeks hammering away at our SSH honeypots like a drunk person trying to unlock the wrong apartment door. Between March 10th and March 27th, they launched 93 separate attacks, with 70 SSH brute force attempts and 23 session terminations. Peak stupidity occurred at 11 AM, 6 PM, and 7 PM UTC, when they managed to rack up 14 events per hour like

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