Detecting and blocking malicious activity is crucial for businesses to protect themselves from financial and reputational damage. For example, e-commerce platforms can prevent fraud by blocking access from suspicious IP addresses; healthcare organizations can ensure patient data stays secure by filtering connections from suspicious IPs; and online gaming companies can prevent cheating by monitoring and blocking IPs associated with reported attacks.

Identifying threats with direct threat intelligence helps teams act more quickly. Our IP abuse monitoring feed delivers a structured and curated list of current and prevalent malicious and suspicious IPs that are linked to known attack patterns or activities. This feed is ideal for environments that require offline access to the information or don’t have real-time API dependencies — including businesses that are working under data retention or residency policies, internal audit teams reviewing suspicious activity without external lookups, and those developing or updating detection rules or security platforms.

IP Abuse Monitoring Feed: Stay Ahead of Malicious Activity

This lightweight, near-real-time feed provides a summary of controller and victim IPs based on community-reported abuse. Use it to vet visitors to your services, optimize firewalls, and prioritize alerts based on severity. This includes categories of potentially compromised devices like routers and darknet visitors, as well as abused proxies.

The abuse feed leverages data from RIPEstat, which is an open source project to help fight the spread of hackers and spammers by crowdsourcing reports of their activity. Each IP address record in the feed is tagged with the confidence level of the reports, associated domains and types of reported abuse.