IP address 78.142.18.172 has been flagged in 427 abuse reports across 25 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, botnet, brute force, email abuse, known attacker, malware c2, malware infrastructure, reconnaissance, reputation low, scanning, spam, suspicious activity, unknown, web attack, web brute force, web scanner.
This IP is geolocated in Bulgaria and belongs to the network ColocaTel Inc. (AS213438). Reports span from 2026-05-01 to 2026-07-06.
Assessment: With 427 abuse reports, 78.142.18.172 shows persistent malicious activity that has been flagged by multiple threat intelligence feeds. The activity pattern and multi-source corroboration indicate this is a genuine threat that warrants immediate blocking at the firewall level.