Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS266777 TCP flood on 23.175.40.42 | 2026-10-17 16:08:24Z

ยท Event #67916

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
2026-10-17T16:08:24.596Z
Recorded

Recorded 134ms after observation

Affected network
23.175.40.42/32
Network operator
DOVAL MANUEL ANGEL (INETGAMING)AS266777
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
30120
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.149

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.