Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS16625 TCP flood on 2.20.209.163 | 2026-11-05 12:56:46Z

ยท Event #182505

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
2026-11-05T12:56:46.107Z
Recorded

Recorded 137ms after observation

Affected network
2.20.209.163/32
Network operator
Akamai Technologies, Inc.AS16625
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
1433
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.70

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.