Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS24429 TCP flood on 163.181.214.1 | 2026-11-11 06:59:39Z

ยท Event #243780

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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

Potassium vector 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-11-11T06:59:39.698Z
Recorded

Recorded 245ms after observation

Affected network
163.181.214.1/32
Network operator
Zhejiang Taobao Network Co.,LtdAS24429
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.111

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-11

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.