Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS200999 TCP flood on 185.48.233.5 | 2026-10-15 05:02:27Z

ยท Event #46435

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
2026-10-15T05:02:27.602Z
Recorded

Recorded 190ms after observation

Affected network
185.48.233.5/32
Network operator
CloudFerro S.AAS200999
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m 40s
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.