IP address 138.197.195.44 has been flagged in 986 abuse reports across 22 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, known attacker, known malicious, malware c2, malware infrastructure, port scan, reconnaissance, repeat offender, reputation low, scanning, ssh brute force, ssh bruteforce, suspicious activity, voip attack.
This IP is geolocated in United States (Santa Clara) and belongs to the network DigitalOcean, LLC (AS14061). Reports span from 2026-07-23 to 2026-10-06.
Assessment: With 986 abuse reports, 138.197.195.44 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.