Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS208949 TCP flood on 185.149.233.56 | 2026-10-17 16:13:48Z

ยท Event #67955

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
2026-10-17T16:13:48.293Z
Recorded

Recorded 141ms after observation

Affected network
185.149.233.56/32
Network operator
HBING LIMITEDAS208949
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
1m 10s
Observed via
31.56.19.147

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.