Threat Intelligence Briefing

Global threat volume increased by 45.7% compared to the previous period, a significant deviation from the baseline driven by a surge in SSH and web brute-force attacks. The Netherlands (ASN 20857, 20860) remains the top source country. Nordic activity is stable and consistent with routine background noise, with Finland showing the highest but expected volume. A cluster of Russian IPs (<a href="https://ip.wayscloud.services/ip-intelligence/176.120.22.0" target="_blank">176.120.22.0</a>/24) is notably active in SSH brute-forcing. This is not a new campaign but an intensification of existing tactics. Focus on the pattern of attacks from Dutch and Russian ASNs rather than individual, ephemeral IPs. Consider implementing temporary rate-limiting on SSH and web authentication services for traffic originating from these high-volume networks. Deprioritize the low-volume Nordic events, which represent routine scanning activity and do not indicate a targeted campaign.