Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS25198 TCP flood on 188.241.218.21 | 2026-10-16 00:08:27Z

ยท Event #51094

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
2026-10-16T00:08:27.995Z
Recorded

Recorded 235ms after observation

Affected network
188.241.218.21/32
Network operator
ZetServersAS25198
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
Randomized
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.11131.56.19.7031.56.19.7331.56.19.7431.56.19.7589.32.41.1991.92.242.19

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.