Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

2026-03-04T21:16:20Zbe597282faeff5140d67ff3fdddebf8b8a5114fa073dc4d7ebcb48842216de17
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What happened

This collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports centers on the rise of the Kimwolf IoT botnet (over ~2 million infected devices), its operator(s) (alias “Dort”), and related criminal activity: large-scale DDoS, doxing, email flooding and even swatting tied to the botmasters. Kimwolf scans local networks to propagate (including Android TV/Badbox 2.0 devices), has been used to swamp the I2P anonymity network, and its operators have publicly boasted about compromises. Separately, a stealthy phishing-as-a-service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays MFA codes to defeat protections. O

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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krebs_on_security
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be597282faeff5140d67ff3fdddebf8b8a5114fa073dc4d7ebcb48842216de17
Enrichment time
2026-03-04T21:16:20Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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