Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
Summary: The U.S. Justice Department, working with authorities in Canada and Germany, dismantled infrastructure behind four IoT botnets - Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad - that had compromised more than three million routers, web cameras and similar devices. The government says Aisuru issued more than 200,000 attack commands, JackSkid at least 90,000, Kimwolf more than 25,000 and Mossad roughly 1,000, with some victims reporting tens of thousands of dollars in losses and remediation costs.
Bottom line: Three million infected devices and hundreds of thousands of attack commands were already in play before this takedown, and the source notes new botnets are copying Kimwolf's internal-network spreading method while competing for the same pool of vulnerable devices.
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