Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood on Netsec Limited in Hong Kong

ยท Event #232615

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

Cereal2 vector 9: Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood.

All Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool flood observations
Observed
2026-09-17T05:29:29.379Z
Recorded

Recorded 273ms after observation

Affected network
148.66.52.30/32
Network operator
Netsec LimitedAS45753
Method
Nonblocking TCP connection and session-pool floodVector 9
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
91.142.78.96

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.