Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS8075 TCP flood on 52.139.168.238 | 2026-11-06 23:31:21Z

ยท Event #200930

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
2026-11-06T23:31:21.876Z
Recorded

Recorded 147ms after observation

Affected network
52.139.168.238/32
Network operator
Microsoft CorporationAS8075
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
61456
Commanded duration
59s
Observed via
31.56.19.72

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-11

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.