INTERNET WEATHER REPORT ☁️☀️
AS219502, also known as STORMCLOUD-AS and registered to Storm Industries LLC, has just been added to the ASN watchlist.
This autonomous system currently originates one IPv4 prefix:
94.154.43.0/24
That sole prefix is already lighting up abuse reporting. AbuseIPDB currently shows 90 reported IPs inside 94.154.43.0/24, with more than 6,300 total reports across the /24.
This is not just reputation noise. One host inside the block, 94.154.43.58, was observed directly in my own firewall data performing a slow, randomized TCP port sweep against a monitored endpoint.
Observed scanning from 94.154.43.58
In the reviewed traffic sample, 94.154.43.58 generated:
- 5,632 TCP connection attempts
- one monitored destination
- 5,587 unique destination ports
- scan window: 30 Jun 2026 from 02:44:30 PT to 19:59:16 PT
- source ports repeatedly clustered at
49152through49159
The destination-port pattern does not look like a single-service brute-force attempt. It looks like a slow randomized vertical port sweep across one target. The scan touched a broad mix of well-known, registered, and high ephemeral ports, including examples such as:
13544358714336379930094181000027018
The operational takeaway is simple: this was unsolicited reconnaissance from inside 94.154.43.0/24.
Public abuse reputation
The same source IP, 94.154.43.58, is also publicly reported on AbuseIPDB with 100% abuse confidence and recent reports describing port scanning, RDP probing, and blocked TCP SYN traffic using the same low source-port range seen in the local logs.
Other hosts in the same /24 are also heavily reported. For example, 94.154.43.181 shows more than 1,000 AbuseIPDB reports and recent SSH brute-force activity. That matters because the case against this block does not rest on one noisy host. The whole /24 shows a pattern of active abuse.
Routing and infrastructure context
AS219502 is a very new ASN. The RIPE aut-num object for AS219502 was created on 9 Jun 2026 and uses the as-name STORMCLOUD-AS.
BGP data reviewed for this report shows AS219502 currently originating 94.154.43.0/24. The route is valid from a routing-policy perspective, but “valid route” does not mean “safe network.” It only means the route is authorized within the routing system.
The StormCloud public website markets offshore VPS, web hosting, proxy services, LIR services, IPv4 subnet allocation, BGP announcements, no mandatory identity verification, cryptocurrency payments, and high network usage. That combination is not proof of abuse by itself, but it is exactly the kind of hosting posture that attracts scanners, botnet operators, proxy abuse, phishing infrastructure, and disposable criminal workloads.
The AS214472 / xlabs_v1 connection
There is also relevant history around related Storm/Offshore infrastructure.
Storm Industries’ own public site identifies Storm Industries LLC as the backend infrastructure and network operations entity behind StormCloud and lists AS214472 as part of that infrastructure. Public BGP data for AS214472 identifies it as Offshore LC with the as-name STORMINDUSTRIES.
That matters because Hunt.io published research in April 2026 on the xlabs_v1 DDoS-for-hire IoT botnet. In that report, operator-controlled infrastructure was tied to 176.65.139.0/24, announced by AS214472. The botnet was described as a Mirai-derived DDoS-for-hire operation targeting game servers and Minecraft hosts.
There is now also a RIPE route object for 176.65.139.0/24 with origin AS219502, created on 25 Jun 2026. That does not prove the same activity is currently operating from AS219502, and it does not prove that 94.154.43.0/24 was used in the xlabs_v1 operation. But it does create a clear routing and infrastructure relationship between the newer AS219502 and the older AS214472/StormCloud infrastructure family.
Why AS219502 should be treated as hostile
The case against AS219502 is not based on a single packet, a single report, or one random firewall hit.
The evidence chain is broader:
- AS219502 is a newly created StormCloud/Storm Industries ASN
- it currently originates only one visible IPv4 /24
- that /24 already has 90 reported IPs and thousands of AbuseIPDB reports
- one IP inside the /24 was directly observed performing a randomized TCP port sweep
- the observed source-port behavior matches public reports for the same IP
- other hosts in the /24 show heavy abuse reporting, including SSH brute-force activity
- related Storm/Offshore infrastructure has prior public reporting tied to DDoS-for-hire botnet infrastructure
- StormCloud publicly advertises no-KYC, crypto-only, high-network-usage-friendly offshore hosting
Taken together, this is enough to classify AS219502 and 94.154.43.0/24 as hostile scanner infrastructure.
Indicators
ASN
AS219502STORMCLOUD-AS- Storm Industries LLC
Prefix
94.154.43.0/24
Observed scanner IP
94.154.43.58
Related infrastructure context
AS214472176.65.139.0/24- StormCloud
- Storm Industries / Offshore LC infrastructure
Observed behavior
- unsolicited TCP port scanning
- randomized vertical port sweep
- source ports clustered at
49152through49159 - public reports of port scanning, RDP probing, SSH brute-force, and abusive network activity
Bottom line
AS219502 is a newly created StormCloud/Storm Industries ASN currently originating 94.154.43.0/24. That prefix is already heavily represented in public abuse reporting, and at least one host inside the block was directly observed performing a slow randomized TCP port sweep.
Whether the best label is abusive customer infrastructure, abuse-tolerant hosting, disposable scanner infrastructure, or a newly stood-up successor to earlier Storm/Offshore activity, the operational conclusion is the same:
Traffic from 94.154.43.0/24 should be treated as hostile.
Drop It Like It’s Hot.
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