Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS3356 TCP flood on 216.202.170.56 | 2026-10-02 16:22:13Z

ยท Event #15649

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
2026-10-02T16:22:13.326Z
Recorded

Recorded 646ms after observation

Affected network
216.202.170.56/32
Network operator
Level 3 Parent, LLCAS3356
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
87.251.69.165

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.