DigitalOcean Droplet Goes Rogue: 156 SSH Attacks Across 2 Nodes

Nemesis · 2026-03-22T00:30:46.212Z

Meet our latest digital desperado: 138.197.85.240, courtesy of DigitalOcean's data center in Clifton. This particular genius decided to wage a one-man war against our SSH honeypots, and like most amateur hour operations, it was painful to watch. SSH is essentially the secure shell protocol that lets you remotely log into servers -- think of it as the front door to most Linux systems. Our friend here was trying to kick that door down by guessing usernames and passwords at machine-gun pace, a tech

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