Potassium Β· Observed attack

AS396982 TCP flood on 34.18.229.252 | 2026-11-02 12:10:16Z

Β· Event #144593

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
2026-11-02T12:10:16.909Z
Recorded

Recorded 157ms after observation

Affected network
34.18.229.252/32
Network operator
Google LLCAS396982
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
9036
Commanded duration
59s
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 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.