Malicious IP Addresses are the unique identifiers that connect devices to the internet. Each device has a different IP address, and cybercriminals use them to track you online. Once hackers find your IP, they can target your devices and use it to steal your information or access your network for other malicious activities.

To protect you from these attacks, cybersecurity solutions often flag suspicious IP addresses as “malicious.” When an IP is classified as malicious, it means it has a history of bad behavior such as launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, dropping malware, hosting phishing websites, or other risky behaviors. These IPs can be detected and flagged by security platforms, email providers, and other services that rely on real-time blacklists.

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However, these lists are not always accurate and can cause a lot of false positives. They also tend to focus on certain regions of the world. This makes them unsuitable for blocking access from a range of countries.

A more effective way to detect malicious IPs is to monitor the activity of each individual website visitor and identify patterns that indicate a risk. You can do this using threat intelligence feeds such as the ones offered by Abusix Guardian or IBM X-Force Exchange, or a SIEM and SOAR solution like Azure Sentinel. These feeds can be used to monitor and identify all suspected malicious IPs visiting your web applications or generating anomalous events on your website. Once you have a list of suspected IPs, you can investigate them by filtering the threats overview dashboard for each feed name or feed confidence, or log type. This allows you to view a detailed report on the suspicious activity of each IP and add corresponding firewall rules in your environment.…