Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
2026-03-20T19:23:27Z•68b46a74ae25f15273a8c8fe4300ea1eaee9a93b0999767a489170900df3b617
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity feed highlights coordinated law-enforcement disruption of four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised over three million devices and powered record DDoS campaigns. Kimwolf remains prominent — its operators (handle “Dort”) have engaged in doxing, swatting and harassment of researchers and have abused anonymity networks (I2P) to evade takedowns. A new phishing-as-a-service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes to bypass protections. An Iran-linked actor claimed a destructive wiper attack against med
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