Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS59930 TCP flood on 149.154.175.55 | 2026-10-19 00:03:36Z

ยท Event #73773

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Country-level precision. botnet.cl stores the target country, never a city or coordinates, so the marker sits at the country's center.

What this method does

Potassium vector 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-10-19T00:03:36.390Z
Recorded

Recorded 124ms after observation

Affected network
149.154.175.55/32
Network operator
Telegram Messenger IncAS59930
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.70

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-09

Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.

botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.