Potassium · Observed attack
AS63949 TCP flood on 172.233.179.48 | 2026-10-11 07:07:21Z
· Event #36873
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
- 2026-10-11T07:07:21.878Z
- Recorded
- Affected network
- 172.233.179.48/32
- Network operator
- Akamai Connected CloudAS63949
- Location
- United States
- Method
- TCP connection floodVector 4
- Protocol
- tcp
- Destination port
- 62812
- Commanded duration
- 2m
- Observed via
- 31.56.19.70
- Geolocation data
- ipinfo-lite · 2026-09
Recorded 137ms after observation
All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.
Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.
Other attacks on this network
Within 24 hours of this observation
Other attacks in this country
Within 24 hours of this observation
botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.