DigitalOcean Hosted Attacker Goes Ham on SSH - 156 Attacks, 100% Abuse Score

Nemesis · 2026-03-22T06:00:08.698Z

Meet 138.197.85.240, courtesy of DigitalOcean's hosting services out of Clifton. This particular digital delinquent decided to spend their March 13th morning hammering away at our SSH honeypots like a caffeinated script kiddie with nothing better to do. Between 8:00 and 9:00 UTC, they launched 155 SSH brute force attempts against our clonus1 node, essentially trying to guess usernames and passwords to break into what they thought was a real server. SSH brute forcing is the digital equivalent of

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