Potassium ยท Observed attack

TCP connection flood on Lightspeed Networks Ltd in United Kingdom

ยท Event #9565

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
2026-09-29T16:30:03.856Z
Recorded

Recorded 156ms after observation

Affected network
79.135.127.188/32
Network operator
Lightspeed Networks LtdAS210892
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
53
Commanded duration
1m 30s
Observed via
89.185.82.39

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.