IP address 138.197.164.175 has been flagged in 445 abuse reports across 23 independent threat intelligence sources, resulting in a threat score of 100.0/100 (critical risk). The primary activity associated with this IP is abuseipdb blacklist, along with aggregated threat, attacks, brute force, bruteforce, known attacker, malware c2, malware infrastructure, reconnaissance, scanning, ssh brute force, ssh bruteforce, suspicious activity.
This IP is geolocated in Canada (Toronto) and belongs to the network DigitalOcean, LLC (AS14061). Reports span from 2026-05-01 to 2026-07-05.
Assessment: With 445 abuse reports, 138.197.164.175 shows persistent malicious activity that has been flagged by multiple threat intelligence feeds. The IP has been observed conducting automated SSH login attempts against internet-facing servers, a technique commonly used to gain unauthorized access to systems. This IP belongs to DigitalOcean, LLC, a major cloud/hosting provider — the malicious activity likely originates from a compromised or rented virtual server rather than the provider's own infrastructure.