Potassium · Observed attack

AS27715 TCP flood on 179.188.55.56 | 2026-11-05 16:42:40Z

· Event #184939

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
2026-11-05T16:42:40.193Z
Recorded

Recorded 140ms after observation

Affected network
179.188.55.56/32
Network operator
Locaweb Serviços de Internet S/AAS27715
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.70

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite · 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.