Potassium ยท Observed attack

TCP connection flood on NETVERSE Limited in Netherlands

ยท Event #5375

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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
2026-09-27T18:36:47.192Z
Recorded

Recorded 137ms after observation

Affected network
31.57.169.3/32
Network operator
NETVERSE LimitedAS201784
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
1m 20s
Observed via
89.185.82.39

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

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.