Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS201131 TCP flood on 163.5.26.128 | 2026-10-04 21:24:27Z

ยท Event #17570

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
2026-10-04T21:24:27.480Z
Recorded

Recorded 139ms after observation

Affected network
163.5.26.128/32
Network operator
LGH NETWORKAS201131
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
5.181.2.8

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.