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 ...

Joint Operation Disrupts Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad Botnets

What happened Authorities in the United States, Germany, and Canada disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets, targeting virtual servers, domains, and related systems used to launch ...
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 hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ...
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 rapidly grew to infect more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming ...
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 ...
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 ...