Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

AS262503 UDP flood on 45.181.228.0/22 | 2026-09-23 18:01:19Z

ยท Event #258424

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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

Cereal2 vector 19: Configurable custom-payload UDP flood.

All Configurable custom-payload UDP flood observations
Observed
2026-09-23T18:01:19.060Z
Recorded

Recorded 191ms after observation

Affected network
45.181.228.0/22
Network operator
WIKI TELECOMUNICACOES EIRELIAS262503
Method
Configurable custom-payload UDP floodVector 19
Protocol
udp
Destination port
Randomized
Commanded duration
1m
Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.

Payload observed in C2 command

Observed command data; this does not establish what reached the target.

No custom payload recorded
Configured datagram length
1400 bytes
Minimum length option
1300 bytes
Maximum length option
1400 bytes

Length options are command settings, not measured packet sizes. The decoded template can differ from the resulting datagrams.

botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.