Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
2026-03-22T13:23:29Z•e250060e33438bd01041049500628bfe8f6ba49db200a8180ae777fdf3f1768a
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber developments: U.S., Canadian and German authorities disrupted the infrastructure for four major IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised over three million routers, cameras and other devices and were used in record-breaking DDoS campaigns. Kimwolf remains a central, disruptive actor (DDoS, doxing, email flooding, swatting), has been used to swamp the I2P anonymity network, and is linked to activity against Badbox 2.0. A new phishing-as-a-service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes to bypass MFA
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- krebs_on_security
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- e250060e33438bd01041049500628bfe8f6ba49db200a8180ae777fdf3f1768a
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-22T13:23:29Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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