Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS8708 TCP flood on 188.27.182.172 | 2026-10-31 18:26:41Z

ยท Event #128632

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
2026-10-31T18:26:41.225Z
Recorded

Recorded 133ms after observation

Affected network
188.27.182.172/32
Network operator
DIGI ROMANIA S.A.AS8708
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.146

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.