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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
The US Justice Department, alongside Canadian and German authorities, seized infrastructure behind four IoT botnets named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad that collectively compromised over three million routers and webcams and launched hundreds of thousands of record-breaking DDoS attacks against targets including DoD infrastructure. Aisuru emerged in late 2024 and seeded Kimwolf in October 2025, a variant that introduced a novel lateral-movement mechanism capable of infecting devices behind internal networks, a technique subsequently copied by several competing botnets. Law enforcement actions in Canada and Germany targeted suspected operators, including a 22-year-old Canadian identified as a core Kimwolf operator and a 15-year-old in Germany.
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