Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS199524 TCP flood on 193.239.179.79 | 2026-10-30 06:06:49Z

ยท Event #117748

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
2026-10-30T06:06:49.811Z
Recorded

Recorded 136ms after observation

Affected network
193.239.179.79/32
Network operator
G-Core Labs S.A.AS199524
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
9998
Commanded duration
3m 19s
Observed via
31.56.19.14331.56.19.14631.56.19.14931.56.19.70

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.