Question regarding AS205092 and AS210180

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@link38.eu>]

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Hello,

at some point since late summer this year, I observe an usual high amount
of attacks (mainly SSH brute force) against several system I own or
administer.

Origin of these are AS205092 (OUTSOURCE GRID LIMITED) and AS210180
(PRISM BUSINESS SERVICES LTD). Both own just a single /24 IPv4 range each,
and are connected to just one (little known) peer.

AS205092 claims to be located in GB, and its postal address points to
a dilapidated building somewhere in West Midlands (116 Bloomfield Road, Tipton, DY4 9ES).
Only some of the assigned IPv4 addresses were conspicuous by attacks,
and are mostly listed at Spamhaus XBL, too. The full range is 185.222.211.0/24 .

AS210180 has set VE (Venezuela) as geographic location, which also matches
the postal address. However, its full appeareance leaves doubts whether
this is correct or not - a website mentioned in the RIR object claims
an offshore location as office address, with telephone number in US.
Its IPv4 range (185.222.210.0/24) is also listed as prefix for AS49877
(RM Engineering LLC).

Both AS claim to provide hosting services, and look highly suspicious
(bad upstream connectivity, dubious contact/postal addresses, similar
BGP setup). While it is not mentioned anywhere they are just another
two rogue ISPs, they would perfectly fit the bill.

Is anybody observing attacks from these too or is in possession of further
details (exact location, purpose, history, connection between AS210180
and AS49877)?

Please drop me a line. :-)

Thank you, and best regards,
Peter Müller
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