Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS152565 TCP flood on 201.7.16.8 | 2026-11-07 13:53:31Z

ยท Event #205726

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
2026-11-07T13:53:31.084Z
Recorded

Recorded 120ms after observation

Affected network
201.7.16.8/32
Network operator
JOY SERVICESAS152565
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.11131.56.19.72

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-11

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.