Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS152194 TCP flood on 43.243.73.249 | 2026-09-29 08:47:15Z

ยท Event #9048

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
2026-09-29T08:47:15.945Z
Recorded

Recorded 133ms after observation

Affected network
43.243.73.249/32
Network operator
CTG Server LimitedAS152194
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
5.181.2.159

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.