Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS63949 TCP flood on 172.236.180.77 | 2026-10-16 04:38:59Z

ยท Event #53738

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
2026-10-16T04:38:59.105Z
Recorded

Recorded 141ms after observation

Affected network
172.236.180.77/32
Network operator
Akamai Connected CloudAS63949
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
27015
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.111

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.