Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS401661 TCP flood on 198.89.99.179 | 2026-11-05 01:23:40Z

ยท Event #176901

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
2026-11-05T01:23:40.443Z
Recorded

Recorded 152ms after observation

Affected network
198.89.99.179/32
Network operator
EMBNEX, LLCAS401661
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
25631
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
31.56.19.14131.56.19.14431.56.19.7031.56.19.72

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.