Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS396120 TCP flood on 40.223.15.38 | 2026-10-05 01:20:59Z

ยท Event #17817

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 8 combines TCP stream connections with raw TCP packet generation. Destination ports use option 7.

All TCP session and raw-packet flood, variant 8 observations
Observed
2026-10-05T01:20:59.631Z
Recorded

Recorded 544ms after observation

Affected network
40.223.15.38/32
Network operator
DonutSMPAS396120
Method
TCP session and raw-packet flood, variant 8Vector 8
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
25565
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
157.22.240.12645.95.233.131

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.