Report for IP: 84.8.253.11

Threat LevelHIGH63/1004 rule types across 3 attack categories
3 incidents on record · 4 rule types · active attacker + blocklisted · active over 5 days · last seen 10d ago
PTR N/A
Org / ASN Oracle Corporation
Country 🇮🇹 Italy
City Rivoli, Piedmont
Timezone Europe/Rome

Attack Analysis

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.
Listed on 2 threat-intelligence blocklists
  • FireHOL level2 — FireHOL level2 lists addresses seen attacking in the last 48 hours across many sensors. It is large and volatile: addresses enter and leave quickly, so on its own this is weaker, recent-activity evidence.
  • This site (WordPress attackers, 90 days) — This site's own data: an IP that attacked WordPress sites and was reported here within the last 90 days. Independent of the third-party lists above.
Several independent community lists agree on this address.
Webshell Upload Scan
This IP rapidly probed multiple non-existent PHP paths in under 60 seconds — a hallmark of automated webshell scanning tools hunting for previously uploaded backdoors or vulnerable file-upload endpoints. If successful, a webshell grants the attacker full remote code execution on the server.

Reports (3)

Date Severity Description
20 Sep 2026 - 01:20 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
20 Sep 2026 - 01:20 low FireHOL level2 (48h recent-attacker feed, large & volatile), unwantedip.eagleeye-intelligence.com (WordPress-targeting IPs, 90d)
14 Sep 2026 - 14:14 high WordPress: User enumeration — 3+ author probes in 60s