Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS4134 TCP flood on 180.109.0.221 | 2026-10-09 16:38:30Z

ยท Event #26414

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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 14 combines TCP stream connections with raw TCP packet generation. Destination ports use option 7.

All TCP session and raw-packet flood, variant 14 observations
Observed
2026-10-09T16:38:30.477Z
Recorded

Recorded 487ms after observation

Affected network
180.109.0.221/32
Network operator
CHINANET BACKBONEAS4134
Method
TCP session and raw-packet flood, variant 14Vector 14
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.7189.32.41.10889.32.41.11489.32.41.4989.32.41.59

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.