Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS59796 TCP flood on 5.252.33.165 | 2026-10-01 13:52:01Z

ยท Event #14923

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
2026-10-01T13:52:01.403Z
Recorded

Recorded 142ms after observation

Affected network
5.252.33.165/32
Network operator
StormWall s.r.o.AS59796
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
25565
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
5.181.2.159

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.