Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS27239 TCP flood on 168.245.139.105 | 2026-10-15 22:05:07Z

ยท Event #50147

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
2026-10-15T22:05:07.543Z
Recorded

Recorded 148ms after observation

Affected network
168.245.139.105/32
Network operator
101VOICEAS27239
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8989
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
134.199.154.6431.56.19.11131.56.19.7131.56.19.7331.56.19.7489.32.41.11489.32.41.59

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.