Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS203307 TCP flood on 45.158.184.148 | 2026-10-09 21:27:40Z

ยท Event #27291

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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
2026-10-09T21:27:40.847Z
Recorded

Recorded 217ms after observation

Affected network
45.158.184.148/32
Network operator
INSTART TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDAS203307
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
1m 30s
Observed via
31.56.19.75

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.