Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS6878 TCP flood on 80.158.56.29 | 2026-10-20 20:59:14Z

ยท Event #83098

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
2026-10-20T20:59:14.788Z
Recorded

Recorded 160ms after observation

Affected network
80.158.56.29/32
Network operator
T-Systems International GmbHAS6878
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.14631.56.19.74

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.