Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS49981 TCP flood on 2.59.170.20 | 2026-10-05 21:47:07Z

ยท Event #18772

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
2026-10-05T21:47:07.271Z
Recorded

Recorded 146ms after observation

Affected network
2.59.170.20/32
Network operator
WorldStream B.V.AS49981
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
87.251.69.166

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.