Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS12849 TCP flood on 212.55.186.81 | 2026-10-16 13:46:47Z

ยท Event #58090

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
2026-10-16T13:46:47.146Z
Recorded

Recorded 124ms after observation

Affected network
212.55.186.81/32
Network operator
Hot-Net internet services Ltd.AS12849
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m 59s
Observed via
31.56.19.14489.32.41.19

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.