> Am 02.06.26 um 12:07 schrieb Alessandro Vesely via mailop:
> > On 02/06/2026 08:56, Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote:
> >> From: DH Lieferung Kundenbetreuung<[email protected]>
> >> To: panizzon@*
> >> Message-ID:<[email protected]>
> >> X-Mailer: Python SMTP Client
> >>
> >> inetnum:        158.94.210.0 - 158.94.210.255
> >> netname:        OMEGATECH
> >> country:        NL
> >
> > You don't seem to be the only victim:  AbuseIPDB says:
> >
> >
> >       *158.94.210.98* <https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/158.94.210.98> was 
> > found in our database!
> >
> > This IP was reported *130* times. Confidence of Abuse is *100%*:
> >
> That /24 range seems to be rented out to a spamming/scamming operation using 
> victim addresses for both sender and recipient:
> 
> Jun  1 14:02:53 localhost postfix/smtpd[3568196]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from 
> unknown[158.94.210.212]: 450 4.7.25 Client 
> host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [158.94.210.212]; 
> from=<info@*domain*.de> to=<info@*domain*.de> proto=ESMTP 
> helo=<[158.94.210.212]>
> 
> I've seen this pattern (sender address = recipient) mostly with sextortion or 
> fake security breach attempts, so it may 
> be possible that those hosts are compromised and the actual miscreant is 
> sitting elsewhere.
> 
>  From my spam blocking database, I see that I labeled 158.94.208.0/22 as 
> spamming, as well as AS214943 which it was 
> apparently part of at some time. No reported false positives yet.

I just grepped the logs from a few of our busier mail servers, and 
various IP addresses from that /24 have been trying to hack into 
various user accounts since as far back as 2026-May-24 (possibly 
earlier too, but I didn't bother to check).

Mostly they're trying to figure out SMTP passwords, and a few 
attempts at IMAP4 are also showing up.

158.94.210/24 is bad news.  I recommending blocking the whole /24 
without counter-measures in place.

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