How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

Multiple KrebsOnSecurity reports describe converging, high-impact threats in early 2026: the Kimwolf IoT botnet (reported >2 million infected devices) is conducting massive DDoS, relaying abusive traffic, abusing anonymity networks (I2P) to evade takedowns, and has been linked to compromises of other botnets (Badbox 2.0); the Kimwolf operator (“Dort”) has mounted harassment, doxing and swatting against researchers. A new phishing-as-a-service named “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes to the legitimate sites, enabling reliable account takeover while evadng