172.203.190.140
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
Whitelisted netblocks are typically owned by trusted entities, such as Google or Microsoft who may use them for search engine spiders. However, these same entities sometimes also provide cloud servers and mail services which are easily abused. Pay special attention when trusting or distrusting these IPs.
172.203.190.140 is on our whitelist as OpenAI Crawler via the subnet 172.203.190.128/28.
- ISP
- Microsoft Limited
- Usage Type
- Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
- ASN
- AS8075
- Domain Name
- microsoft.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Dulles Town Center, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
954 from
63 distinct
reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Recent reports
We have received reports of abusive activity from this IP address within the last week.
This IP is on our whitelist as OpenAI Crawler.
Shared services like this are often reported for traffic that is not abuse, so review the reports
before blocking.
| Reporter | IoA Timestamp (UTC) | Comment | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous |
apache vulnerability scan
|
Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 netclix.gr |
(bot_kill_mega) Aggressive Bot Blocked: OAI-SearchBot 172.203.190.140 (US/United States/-)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇩🇪 conseilgouz |
lae-88 : Bloc AI bots=>/robots.txt(AI-)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇫🇷 mail.avx.gr |
(ai-bots) AI crawler AI agent detected from 172.203.190.140 (US/United States/Virginia/Dulles/-): (CF_ENABLE)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 netclix.gr |
(bot_kill_mega) Aggressive Bot Blocked: OAI-SearchBot 172.203.190.140 (US/United States/-)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇫🇷 igora-Tango-Velours |
tae-88 : Bloc AI bots=>/(AI-)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇳🇱 soverin |
Network scan on port 443
|
Email Spam | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force | |
| Anonymous |
Automated report (2026-11-05T04:49:59+08:00). Scraper detected.
|
Bad Web Bot Open Proxy | |
| 🇫🇷 mail.avx.gr |
(ai-bots) AI crawler AI agent detected from 172.203.190.140 (US/United States/Virginia/Dulles/-): (CF_ENABLE)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇩🇪 klaus_ph |
[Wed Nov 04 09:44:26.198722 2026] [authz_core:error] [pid 789764] [client 172.203.190.140:55089] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/smu.vufind.net/public_html/robots.txt
...
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 conseilgouz |
sae-88 : Bloc AI bots=>/robots.txt(AI-)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇩🇪 conseilgouz |
lae-88 : Bloc AI bots=>/robots.txt(AI-)
|
Hacking |
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