Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS31898 TCP flood on 140.238.30.0 | 2026-10-25 17:00:32Z

ยท Event #90136

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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
2026-10-25T17:00:32.864Z
Recorded

Recorded 140ms after observation

Affected network
140.238.30.0/32
Network operator
Oracle CorporationAS31898
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
10998
Commanded duration
3m 19s
Observed via
31.56.19.73

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.