Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS401661 TCP flood on 198.89.99.35 | 2026-11-03 02:18:34Z

ยท Event #149574

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
2026-11-03T02:18:34.513Z
Recorded

Recorded 136ms after observation

Affected network
198.89.99.35/32
Network operator
EMBNEX, LLCAS401661
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
25565
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.7031.56.19.72

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.