Potassium ยท Observed attack

Mixed TCP/UDP flood on IONOS SE in Germany

ยท Event #2479

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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 18 contains TCP stream, raw TCP, and UDP datagram branches. It is a mixed-transport handler with destination-port selection through option 7.

All Mixed TCP/UDP flood observations
Observed
2026-09-25T21:26:33.211Z
Recorded

Recorded 150ms after observation

Affected network
217.160.86.51/32
Network operator
IONOS SEAS8560
Method
Mixed TCP/UDP floodVector 18
Protocol
tcp/udp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
89.185.82.39

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.