Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS14956 TCP flood on 172.86.125.52 | 2026-10-28 06:38:18Z

ยท Event #110976

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
2026-10-28T06:38:18.703Z
Recorded

Recorded 153ms after observation

Affected network
172.86.125.52/32
Network operator
RouterHosting LLCAS14956
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
38180
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.72

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.