Potassium ยท Observed attack

TCP connection flood on INSTART TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED in Romania

ยท Event #1809

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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
2026-09-25T13:36:38.109Z
Recorded

Recorded 163ms after observation

Affected network
45.158.184.140/32
Network operator
INSTART TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDAS203307
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
2m
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.