Potassium · Observed attack

AS272772 TCP flood on 189.89.253.0/24 | 2026-10-17 11:40:50Z

· Event #66267

WhatsApp

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
2026-10-17T11:40:50.910Z
Recorded

Recorded 131ms after observation

Affected network
189.89.253.0/24
Network operator
M MACHADO SIMÃO FALCÃO EIRELI MEAS272772
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.144

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite · 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.