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  • Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

    Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named…

  • Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks

    Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf,…

  • Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

    Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets? Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we’ll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators and services that…

  • The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

    The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought…

  • Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

    Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com! KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days. Happily, comeuppance was a strong theme running through our coverage…

  • Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List

    Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare responded by redacting Aisuru domain names from their top websites list. The chief executive at Cloudflare says…

  • DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

    DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating…