Potassium Β· Observed attack

TCP connection flood on OVH SAS in United States

Β· Event #9696

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
2026-09-29T18:21:05.049Z
Recorded

Recorded 146ms after observation

Affected network
40.160.142.137/32
Network operator
OVH SASAS16276
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
27075
Commanded duration
5m
Observed via
89.185.82.38

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite Β· 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.