Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS24940 TCP flood on 78.46.93.232 | 2026-11-07 14:02:34Z

ยท Event #205799

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
2026-11-07T14:02:34.980Z
Recorded

Recorded 134ms after observation

Affected network
78.46.93.232/32
Network operator
Hetzner Online GmbHAS24940
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
30055
Commanded duration
59s
Observed via
31.56.19.73

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

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-11

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.