Potassium ยท Observed attack

TCP connection flood on Cox Communications Inc. in United States

ยท Event #6486

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
2026-09-28T09:59:20.046Z
Recorded

Recorded 132ms after observation

Affected network
68.231.223.88/32
Network operator
Cox Communications Inc.AS22773
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
39922
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
89.185.82.37

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.