Best way to block specific external IP addresses

I'm using an ASA also and I've been blocking IPs for some time now and it has really tapered off ( now I'm just watching the "hit" counters tick up) - I check the geographic location of the offending IP and if it is from a region of the world that we wouldn't interact with anyway, I block the entire range of IPs... mostly China and Korea and Russia. Fast forward several months and I rarely block an IP any more as most of the offending IPs have already been blocked. Of course this strategy won't work for everyone.
Any way you accomplish this task is going to require you to add the addresses as they pop up on your radar so I don't see how GPO will make your life easier, you'll want to block at the perimeter anyway.

Every week we get a list of known Malware IP addresses. My boss wants me to block these addresses so I was wondering what the best way to do this would be. We have a Cisco ASA and I know I could create a network object for each IP addresses and select block all access. But is that the best way. I think another option might be with a GPO and a hosts file. Any other ideas. There are usually 30-50 IP addresses listed at least every week. Any other ideas or a better way to accomplish this? Thanks.
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