Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS214996 TCP flood on 152.53.192.138 | 2026-10-17 05:16:47Z

ยท Event #63907

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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
2026-10-17T05:16:47.307Z
Recorded

Recorded 159ms after observation

Affected network
152.53.192.138/32
Network operator
netcup GmbHAS214996
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
5m
Observed via
31.56.19.11131.56.19.14231.56.19.70

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.