Happy 16th Birthday, Krebs OnSecurity.com!
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity.com marked its 16th anniversary with a retrospective of 2025 coverage, including the EU's sanctions on bulletproof hosting provider Stark Industries Solutions and a record $176 million fine levied by Canadian regulators against payment processor Cryptomus in October 2025. The post also recounts Aisuru DDoS attacks that set successive records against KrebsOnSecurity.com and Cloudflare, and cites XLab's finding that the Kimwolf botnet controlled approximately 1.83 million devices as of December 17.
Key Takeaway: A single botnet holding roughly 1.83 million compromised devices, with operators now renting them out as anonymizing proxies rather than only launching DDoS, puts a large pool of infected IoT hardware at the disposal of anyone buying access.
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