Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS48925 TCP flood on 178.208.177.159 | 2026-10-09 22:26:09Z

ยท Event #27503

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
2026-10-09T22:26:09.350Z
Recorded

Recorded 156ms after observation

Affected network
178.208.177.159/32
Network operator
VibeGAMES B.V.AS48925
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.73

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.