Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada
2026-05-22T13:23:33Z•dd5ab8a67d284c4f1e815c71f42a1840b13355dbb32f52b405f6742b9c8d1f07
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What happened
A set of high-impact cybersecurity incidents reported by KrebsOnSecurity in Mar–May 2026: Canadian authorities arrested the alleged Kimwolf botnet operator after massive IoT-based DDoS, doxing and swatting campaigns; CISA contractor code on GitHub exposed highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials and internal build/deploy information; Canvas suffered a large data-extortion incident threatening ~275M student/faculty records and disrupting classes; multiple large patch rounds from major vendors addressed dozens-to-hundreds of vulnerabilities (including actively exploited zero-days such as “Blue
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