Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS214833 TCP flood on 5.42.211.211 | 2026-10-07 05:30:24Z

ยท Event #21030

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
2026-10-07T05:30:24.588Z
Recorded

Recorded 130ms after observation

Affected network
5.42.211.211/32
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
9987
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
91.92.242.19

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.