Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS701 UDP flood on 173.48.98.240 | 2026-10-16 02:56:01Z

ยท Event #52685

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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 7 sends UDP datagrams through its own registered payload handler. Option 7 selects a fixed port, random port, or list of destination ports.

All UDP datagram flood, variant 7 observations
Observed
2026-10-16T02:56:01.956Z
Recorded

Recorded 161ms after observation

Affected network
173.48.98.240/32
Network operator
Verizon BusinessAS701
Method
UDP datagram flood, variant 7Vector 7
Protocol
udp
Destination port
53
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.74

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.