Potassium · Observed attack
TCP connection flood on Microsoft Corporation in France
· Event #7135
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
- 2026-09-28T15:38:16.848Z
- Recorded
- Affected network
- 4.178.220.191/32
- Network operator
- Microsoft CorporationAS8075
- Location
- France
- Method
- TCP connection floodVector 4
- Protocol
- tcp
- Destination port
- 8443
- Commanded duration
- 16m 40s
- Observed via
- 5.181.2.159
- Geolocation data
- ipinfo-lite · 2026-09
Recorded 137ms after observation
All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.
Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.
Other attacks on this network
Within 24 hours of this observation
Other attacks in this country
Within 24 hours of this observation
botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.