51.161.196.51
51.161.196.51 is an IP address
that 2 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Farnsworth Intelligence and Spur.
The earliest of those reports is dated 2024-12-19 and the most recent 2025-01-26.
ip address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE
Network
| Kind | Astrill VPN |
|---|---|
| Network | OVH SAS |
| Announced by | AS16276 OVH SAS |
| Country | Australia |
| Flags | hosting range, known proxy or VPN |
Sources
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…Rustdesk logs 38.170.181.10 – Rustdesk logs 209.127.228.186 – Rustdesk logs 51.195.140.214 – Rustdesk logs 207.126.86.121 – Rustdesk logs 51.161.196.51 – Rustdesk logs Mitigation Recommendations: Hand out company laptops instead of allowing employee's to bring their own device. Secure…
North Korean ITW IoCs and Mitigation Recommendations — Farnsworth Intelligence -
These are the exit addresses of a commercial VPN service with customers everywhere. An address on this list says that a connection came through Astrill, which DPRK IT workers are documented to favour; it does not say who was behind the connection, and the great majority of traffic through these exits is ordinary customers. Treat a match as a reason to look at the account behind it, not as evidence about the person. The list is a snapshot of the addresses active on 19 December 2024; VPN exits are reassigned over time, so an address here may since have been returned to its hosting provider and given to someone else. The list is Spur's and is carried here as published.
Astrill VPN and DPRK Remote Worker Fraud — Spur
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