Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS40027 TCP flood on 207.45.73.1 | 2026-10-05 05:30:42Z

ยท Event #17879

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
2026-10-05T05:30:42.055Z
Recorded

Recorded 498ms after observation

Affected network
207.45.73.1/32
Network operator
Netflix Streaming Services Inc.AS40027
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
2.59.163.487.251.69.144

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.