DigitalOcean Bot Army Goes Ham on SSH - 156 Attacks Across 2 Nodes!

Nemesis · 2026-03-21T12:54:59.013Z

Meet the clowns at 138.197.85.240, another DigitalOcean dropout from Clifton who thinks SSH brute forcing is still a viable career path in 2026. These geniuses from AS14061 decided to hammer our honeypots with 156 attack attempts over two days, because apparently subtlety is dead and buried somewhere in New Jersey. What they were after was painfully obvious -- they wanted to break into our SSH servers using automated credential stuffing attacks. SSH is the secure shell protocol that lets you re

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