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Category: Dort

  • 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…

  • Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

    Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service…

  • Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

    Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0, a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software that comes pre-installed on many Android TV streaming boxes.…

  • 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…