Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS16276 TCP flood on 51.222.36.246 | 2026-11-04 07:34:13Z

ยท Event #164598

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
2026-11-04T07:34:13.698Z
Recorded

Recorded 129ms after observation

Affected network
51.222.36.246/32
Network operator
OVH SASAS16276
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
1194
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
31.56.19.14131.56.19.14331.56.19.14431.56.19.14931.56.19.7031.56.19.74

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.