Alleged leader of Kimwolf, a sweeping botnet for cybercriminals, arrested in Canada
2026-05-22T02:51:39Z•f712171fd4035e438074b297ac41b68cbbbd02d2d6f0c87ac0294a197e2b943d
AI red teamingAI securityCISACISA budget cutsCanadaClarityEuropolFirst VPNGitHubJacob ButlerMicrosoftRampartTrumpVPN takedownVS Code extensionVerizon DBIRVisual Studio Codearrestbotnetcredential leakexecutive orderexploited vulnerabilitieskimwolfopen-source vulnerabilitiessupply chain attack
What happened
This CyberScoop roundup highlights multiple high-profile cyber developments: Canadian authorities arrested 23-year-old Jacob Butler, alleged administrator of the Kimwolf botnet, who faces extradition to the U.S. and up to 10 years in prison. European authorities, with Europol, dismantled the First VPN cybercrime service — arresting its alleged administrator and seizing servers/domains. GitHub disclosed that internal repositories were exfiltrated after an employee device was compromised via a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, underscoring supply-chain risks to developer tooling. Separately
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