Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS214918 TCP flood on 217.156.22.88 | 2026-10-18 21:36:06Z

ยท Event #73128

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
2026-10-18T21:36:06.494Z
Recorded

Recorded 138ms after observation

Affected network
217.156.22.88/32
Network operator
ESAGAMES HOSTING SHIELD S.R.L.AS214918
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
9987
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.70

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.