Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada
Summary: Canadian authorities arrested 23-year-old Ottawa resident Jacob Butler, known as "Dort," on suspicion of building and operating the Kimwolf Internet-of-Things botnet, which enslaved millions of devices for DDoS attacks over six months. A criminal complaint unsealed in an Alaska district court charges Butler with operating the botnet, which the Justice Department says was tied to attacks measured at nearly 30 Terabits per second, issued over 25,000 attack commands, and caused some victims losses exceeding one million dollars.
Why it matters: The botnet's traffic reached nearly 30 Terabits per second and touched Internet address ranges belonging to the Department of Defense, drawing in the Defense Criminal Investigative Service - a reminder that IoT devices firewalled from the open internet are still being conscripted into attacks of that scale.
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