Cereal2 ยท Observed attack
Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood on OVH SAS in France
ยท Event #246983
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
Cereal2 vector 9: Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood.
All Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood observations- Observed
- 2026-09-20T19:10:33.888Z
- Recorded
- Affected network
- 51.68.231.168/32
- Network operator
- OVH SASAS16276
- Location
- France
- Method
- Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool floodVector 9
- Protocol
- tcp
- Destination port
- Randomized
- Commanded duration
- 10s
- Observed via
- 129.226.82.94185.173.37.80185.173.38.47185.173.39.2185.244.181.21743.130.251.22843.155.204.22843.156.47.24043.156.82.23343.157.142.7843.157.181.15643.157.78.24343.166.153.5843.166.252.22243.166.68.1743.173.124.2777.232.37.5577.232.41.11977.232.42.11277.232.42.7677.232.43.4291.142.78.9692.119.158.3994.183.235.1194.183.235.15995.182.87.134
- Geolocation data
- ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07
Recorded 3s after observation
All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.
Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.
Other attacks on this network
Within 24 hours of this observation
- Stateful TCP connection and session flood145.239.149.65/32
- Stateful TCP connection and session flood51.77.51.226/32
- UDP flood with minimal datagrams (default 1-byte payload)141.95.73.19/32
- Raw IPv4/TCP packet flood variant 351.68.231.168/32
- TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 151.68.231.168/32
- RakNet unconnected-ping flood141.95.73.19/32
Other attacks in this country
Within 24 hours of this observation
- UDP flood with minimal datagrams (default 1-byte payload)66.6.59.92/32
- UDP flood with minimal datagrams (default 1-byte payload)66.6.59.92/32
- TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 166.6.59.92/32
- Raw IPv4/TCP packet flood variant 366.6.59.92/32
- Stateful TCP connection and session flood66.6.59.92/32
- TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 166.6.59.92/32
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