Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS8708 TCP flood on 82.79.100.142 | 2026-10-05 23:40:40Z

ยท Event #18937

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
2026-10-05T23:40:40.849Z
Recorded

Recorded 173ms after observation

Affected network
82.79.100.142/32
Network operator
DIGI ROMANIA S.A.AS8708
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
45.155.68.31

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.