Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

Stateful TCP connection and session flood on China Telecom (Group) in China

ยท Event #179724

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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

Cereal2 vector 15: Stateful TCP connection and session flood.

All Stateful TCP connection and session flood observations
Observed
2026-09-02T09:41:04.494Z
Recorded

Recorded 260ms after observation

Affected network
14.103.225.220/32
Network operator
China Telecom (Group)AS4811
Method
Stateful TCP connection and session floodVector 15
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8001
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
38.54.104.20

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

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.