Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS7922 TCP flood on 73.211.168.197 | 2026-10-09 22:53:59Z

ยท Event #27612

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
2026-10-09T22:53:59.529Z
Recorded

Recorded 145ms after observation

Affected network
73.211.168.197/32
Network operator
Comcast Cable Communications, LLCAS7922
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
89.32.41.19

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.