Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS44486 TCP flood on 45.135.201.238 | 2026-11-04 11:33:12Z

ยท Event #166552

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
2026-11-04T11:33:12.170Z
Recorded

Recorded 135ms after observation

Affected network
45.135.201.238/32
Network operator
synlinq.deAS44486
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
30120
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.11131.56.19.7031.56.19.72

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.