Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS16509 TCP flood on 65.9.46.79 | 2026-11-09 14:51:53Z

ยท Event #226244

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
2026-11-09T14:51:53.230Z
Recorded

Recorded 257ms after observation

Affected network
65.9.46.79/32
Network operator
Amazon.com, Inc.AS16509
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
30s
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 2026-11

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.