Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS7552 TCP flood on 171.225.223.126 | 2026-10-16 02:39:55Z

ยท Event #52538

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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 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-10-16T02:39:55.865Z
Recorded

Recorded 8s after observation

Affected network
171.225.223.126/32
Network operator
Viettel GroupAS7552
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
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.