Potassium ยท Observed attack

TCP connection flood on Reflected Networks, Inc. in United States

ยท Event #11046

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
2026-09-30T05:33:31.020Z
Recorded

Recorded 129ms after observation

Affected network
66.254.114.41/32
Network operator
Reflected Networks, Inc.AS29789
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
40s
Observed via
5.181.2.159

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.