Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS58212 TCP flood on 45.157.232.250 | 2026-11-04 08:23:14Z

ยท Event #165031

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
2026-11-04T08:23:14.457Z
Recorded

Recorded 152ms after observation

Affected network
45.157.232.250/32
Network operator
dataforest GmbHAS58212
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
30120
Commanded duration
59s
Observed via
31.56.19.11131.56.19.14431.56.19.70

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.