Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS8075 TCP flood on 52.140.61.5 | 2026-11-02 17:02:26Z

ยท Event #146019

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
2026-11-02T17:02:26.111Z
Recorded

Recorded 141ms after observation

Affected network
52.140.61.5/32
Network operator
Microsoft CorporationAS8075
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
19151
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.70

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.