Jacob Butler

Canadian man Jacob Butler has been arrested and charged for operating KimWolf, a DDoS-for-hire botnet service that compromised over one million devices worldwide. Court documents were unsealed Thursday revealing the Justice Department's charges against him for running the malicious service.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old from Ottawa, Canada, for operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet used in DDoS-for-hire attacks. Butler, also known as Dort, has been charged with developing and operating the botnet, which is believed to be a variant of AISURU.

Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old Canadian man also known as 'Dort', was arrested in Ottawa and faces extradition to the United States for allegedly running Kimwolf, a major DDoS botnet that hijacked over 2 million Android TV devices and launched more than 25,000 attacks. The botnet operation, which was part of a larger coordinated takedown in March involving multiple botnets that compromised three million devices combined, caused millions of dollars in damages and targeted Department of Defense networks.

Canadian authorities arrested 23-year-old Jacob Butler, also known as 'Dort', for operating the Kimwolf botnet that infected millions of IoT devices and launched massive DDoS attacks exceeding 30 Terabits per second. Butler faces criminal charges in both Canada and the United States, with the botnet's infrastructure seized in March alongside three other competing DDoS botnets. The arrest followed Butler's harassment campaigns against security researchers and victims whose financial losses exceeded one million dollars.