Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

Stateful TCP connection and session flood on Cogent Communications, LLC in United States

ยท Event #280912

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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

Cereal2 vector 15: Stateful TCP connection and session flood.

All Stateful TCP connection and session flood observations
Observed
2026-09-28T15:57:09.596Z
Recorded

Recorded 194ms after observation

Affected network
38.248.23.84/32
Network operator
Cogent Communications, LLCAS174
Method
Stateful TCP connection and session floodVector 15
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
22
Commanded duration
1m
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.