Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS214243 TCP flood on 5.231.234.208 | 2026-10-19 02:43:49Z

ยท Event #74389

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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
2026-10-19T02:43:49.726Z
Recorded

Recorded 169ms after observation

Affected network
5.231.234.208/32
Network operator
Marc FischerAS214243
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
1m 59s
Observed via
31.56.19.14131.56.19.143

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.