Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS132203 TCP flood on 43.173.38.188 | 2026-10-11 01:34:18Z

ยท Event #35868

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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

Potassium vector 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-10-11T01:34:18.754Z
Recorded

Recorded 159ms after observation

Affected network
43.173.38.188/32
Network operator
Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi AvenueAS132203
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
8m 20s
Observed via
31.56.19.72

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.