Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS20473 TCP flood on 139.180.168.48 | 2026-09-30 19:17:33Z

ยท Event #12617

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
2026-09-30T19:17:33.197Z
Recorded

Recorded 159ms after observation

Affected network
139.180.168.48/32
Network operator
The Constant Company, LLCAS20473
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
1m 40s
Observed via
89.185.82.37

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.