Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS16276 TCP flood on 217.182.196.57 | 2026-10-06 19:23:44Z

ยท Event #20057

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
2026-10-06T19:23:44.642Z
Recorded

Recorded 231ms after observation

Affected network
217.182.196.57/32
Network operator
OVH SASAS16276
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
27027
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
91.92.242.19

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.