Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS214036 TCP flood on 159.100.6.5 | 2026-11-03 15:06:51Z

ยท Event #155814

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
2026-11-03T15:06:51.712Z
Recorded

Recorded 146ms after observation

Affected network
159.100.6.5/32
Network operator
Ultahost, Inc.AS214036
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
16m 40s
Observed via
31.56.19.147

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.