Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood on CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone in China

ยท Event #173132

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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 18: High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood.

All High-concurrency TCP connection-pool flood observations
Observed
2026-09-01T01:14:25.584Z
Recorded

Recorded 489ms after observation

Affected network
153.3.149.221/32
Network operator
CHINA UNICOM China169 BackboneAS4837
Method
High-concurrency TCP connection-pool floodVector 18
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
57991
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
212.193.31.219

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.