Potassium · Observed attack
TCP connection flood on Cogent Communications, LLC in Argentina
· Event #11102
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
- 2026-09-30T06:00:41.675Z
- Recorded
- Affected network
- 149.78.133.161/32
- Network operator
- Cogent Communications, LLCAS174
- Location
- Argentina
- Method
- TCP connection floodVector 4
- Protocol
- tcp
- Destination port
- 6112
- Commanded duration
- 1m 40s
- Observed via
- 5.181.2.159
- Geolocation data
- ipinfo-lite · 2026-09
Recorded 294ms after observation
All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.
Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.
Other attacks on this network
Within 24 hours of this observation
Other attacks in this country
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botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.