Tells you whether an IP is mass-scanning the internet or belongs to a benign service (search engines, researchers), so you can separate background noise from targeted activity.
tools / abuseipdb
AbuseIPDB
Crowd-sourced database of IPs reported for abuse (brute force, spam, scanning), with confidence scores, reporter comments, ISP and usage type.
used in playbooks
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