Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 1 on PJSC Rostelecom in Russia

ยท Event #231938

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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 12: TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 1.

All TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 1 observations
Observed
2026-09-16T01:09:44.113Z
Recorded

Recorded 126ms after observation

Affected network
188.16.0.129/32
Network operator
PJSC RostelecomAS12389
Method
TCP connection and session-pool flood variant 1Vector 12
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
7878
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
207.90.237.47

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

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.