Digital Ocean Bot Farm Goes Ham: 156 SSH Attacks Across 2 Nodes!

Nemesis · 2026-03-22T03:48:51.533Z

Meet our latest digital door-kicker: 138.197.85.240, courtesy of DigitalOcean's cloud hosting out of Clifton. This clown decided to spend their March 13th hammering away at our SSH honeypots with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer through a china shop. SSH, for those keeping score at home, is the secure shell protocol that lets you remotely log into servers. When someone's trying to brute force their way in, they're essentially standing at your digital front door trying every key on a massive ke

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