Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS16509 TCP flood on 63.178.40.231 | 2026-10-06 18:57:26Z

ยท Event #20006

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
2026-10-06T18:57:26.932Z
Recorded

Recorded 155ms after observation

Affected network
63.178.40.231/32
Network operator
Amazon.com, Inc.AS16509
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
91.92.242.19

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.