Potassium Β· Observed attack

AS396982 TCP flood on 8.232.165.79 | 2026-10-16 06:27:11Z

Β· Event #54661

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
2026-10-16T06:27:11.051Z
Recorded

Recorded 2s after observation

Affected network
8.232.165.79/32
Network operator
Google LLCAS396982
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
6662
Commanded duration
1m 39s
Observed via
31.56.19.11191.92.242.19

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.