Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS51115 TCP flood on 178.248.235.54 | 2026-09-24 10:15:37Z

ยท Event #316

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
2026-09-24T10:15:37.602Z
Recorded

Recorded 337ms after observation

Affected network
178.248.235.54/32
Network operator
HLL LLCAS51115
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m 9s
Observed via
217.60.103.25

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.