Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood on China Telecom (Group) in China

ยท Event #175201

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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

Cereal2 vector 18: High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood.

All High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood observations
Observed
2026-09-01T07:16:53.949Z
Recorded

Recorded 373ms after observation

Affected network
14.103.225.220/32
Network operator
China Telecom (Group)AS4811
Method
High-concurrency TCP connection-pool floodVector 18
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8006
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
38.54.104.20

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

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.