Cereal2 ยท Observed attack
Stateful TCP connection and session flood on Cogent Communications, LLC in United States
ยท Event #280912
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
- Affected network
- 38.248.23.84/32
- Network operator
- Cogent Communications, LLCAS174
- Location
- United States
- Method
- Stateful TCP connection and session floodVector 15
- Protocol
- tcp
- Destination port
- 22
- Commanded duration
- 1m
- Observed via
- 129.226.82.94144.126.198.39165.245.246.201178.62.233.227185.173.38.47185.173.39.243.130.251.22843.155.204.22843.156.47.24043.156.82.23343.157.181.15643.157.198.20043.157.78.24343.166.153.5843.166.252.22243.166.68.1743.173.124.2777.232.37.5577.232.41.11977.232.42.7692.119.158.3994.183.235.24995.182.87.134
- Geolocation data
- ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-09
Recorded 194ms 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
Other attacks in this country
Within 24 hours of this observation
- TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 1172.65.190.166/32
- Stateful TCP connection and session flood172.65.190.166/32
- RakNet unconnected-ping flood172.65.190.166/32
- UDP flood with minimal datagrams (default 1-byte payload)87.192.37.0/24
- TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 123.224.230.107/32
- UDP flood with minimal datagrams (default 1-byte payload)87.192.38.0/24
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