Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS401362 TCP flood on 191.44.98.44 | 2026-11-03 21:48:54Z

ยท Event #159738

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
2026-11-03T21:48:54.481Z
Recorded

Recorded 142ms after observation

Affected network
191.44.98.44/32
Network operator
HOST4NERD LLCAS401362
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
8080
Commanded duration
1m 5s
Observed via
31.56.19.147

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.