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Category: Kimwolf

  • 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,…

  • Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

    Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf’s ability to scan the local networks of compromised systems for other IoT…

  • 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…