Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS8075 TCP flood on 172.178.160.17 | 2026-11-09 04:36:05Z

ยท Event #221184

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
2026-11-09T04:36:05.474Z
Recorded

Recorded 242ms after observation

Affected network
172.178.160.17/32
Network operator
Microsoft CorporationAS8075
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
59s
Observed via
31.56.19.7231.56.19.73

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-11

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.