Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS215136 TCP flood on 5.175.140.132 | 2026-11-01 20:05:07Z

ยท Event #140435

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
2026-11-01T20:05:07.299Z
Recorded

Recorded 234ms after observation

Affected network
5.175.140.132/32
Network operator
Finn Hess trading as RyzehostingAS215136
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
31.56.19.14431.56.19.146

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.