Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS40419 TCP flood on 23.190.216.17 | 2026-10-18 12:06:02Z

ยท Event #71062

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
2026-10-18T12:06:02.806Z
Recorded

Recorded 140ms after observation

Affected network
23.190.216.17/32
Network operator
ASHLAND-AREA-AMATEUR-RADIO-CLUBAS40419
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
31.56.19.141

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.