Category: Defense Criminal Investigative Service
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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…
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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,…
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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an…
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Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many…