Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS13335 TCP flood on 172.65.180.247 | 2026-10-05 20:45:24Z

ยท Event #18687

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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
2026-10-05T20:45:24.846Z
Recorded

Recorded 143ms after observation

Affected network
172.65.180.247/32
Network operator
Cloudflare, Inc.AS13335
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
7636
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
2.59.163.4

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.