Report for IP: 78.142.18.40

Threat LevelMEDIUM28/1001 rule type
1 incident on record · last seen 30d ago
PTR N/A
Org / ASN Colocatel Inc
Country 🇳🇱 The Netherlands
City Amsterdam, North Holland
Timezone Europe/Amsterdam

Attack Analysis

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Heerlen · 213438 · Colocatel Inc.
WordPress Username Enumeration
This IP probed the WordPress ?author= parameter to enumerate valid usernames (e.g. ?author=1, ?author=2). Harvested usernames are then fed into credential stuffing or password brute-force attacks. This is purely reconnaissance — there is no legitimate reason to systematically probe author IDs.

Reports (1)

Date Severity Description
2 Jul 2026 - 03:15 high Web: User enumeration — 3+ author probes in 60s