Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS219407 TCP flood on 83.171.245.200 | 2026-10-16 12:36:36Z

ยท Event #57584

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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 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-10-16T12:36:36.540Z
Recorded

Recorded 128ms after observation

Affected network
83.171.245.200/32
Network operator
RU-Transit customer coneAS219407
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.75

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.