Kimwolf

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.

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man for operating the KimWolf DDoS botnet, which compromised nearly two million devices globally. The coordinated international law enforcement action targets the suspected administrator of the malicious botnet network.

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.

A Canadian man has been arrested by Canadian authorities and charged in the U.S. District of Alaska with operating the KimWolf DDoS botnet, which targeted internet-connected devices. The criminal complaint was unsealed following his arrest, marking a coordinated international law enforcement action against the cybercriminal infrastructure.

The U.S., Canada, and Germany dismantled four IoT botnets named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad, which were responsible for numerous DDoS attacks on IoT devices.

The article discusses the identity and activities of 'Dort', the botmaster behind Kimwolf, the world's largest and most disruptive botnet.