Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS39979 TCP flood on 192.234.37.41 | 2026-10-18 06:14:57Z

ยท Event #70543

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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
2026-10-18T06:14:57.802Z
Recorded

Recorded 142ms after observation

Affected network
192.234.37.41/32
Network operator
Polygon.io, IncAS39979
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
31.56.19.14631.56.19.72

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.