Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS45753 TCP flood on 182.16.60.185 | 2026-11-04 23:55:30Z

ยท Event #176011

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
2026-11-04T23:55:30.451Z
Recorded

Recorded 140ms after observation

Affected network
182.16.60.185/32
Network operator
Netsec LimitedAS45753
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
80
Commanded duration
2m
Observed via
31.56.19.14131.56.19.72

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.