Threats · 224 days ago
The U.S. Justice Department with German and Canadian partners disrupted command-and-control infrastructure for four large IoT botnets. Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad had compromised over three million devices and issued hundreds of thousands of DDoS commands, including record-size attacks and strikes against DoD IPs. Authorities seized domains and virtual servers; investigations continue and no U.S. arrests were announced.
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US seizes domains and infrastructure used in sprawling botnet campaigns
The Justice Department said on Thursday evening that the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets were used to target victims with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that overloaded websites and made them unreachable.
Justice Department disrupts botnet networks that hijacked 3 million devices
A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.
DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks
DoJ disrupts IoT botnets behind 31.4 Tbps DDoS attacks using 3M devices, reducing global extortion-driven outages.
US, allies move to dismantle four high-volume IoT botnets
The armies of hacked computers and internet of things gadgets powered disruption and extortion campaigns that sometimes cost victims tens of thousands of dollars.
Authorities disrupt four IoT botnets behind record DDoS attacks - Help Net Security
Authorities disrupted four major IoT botnets used in global DDoS attacks, linked to record traffic peaks of 30 Tbps.
Aisuru and Kimwolf DDoS Botnets Disrupted in International Operation
The lesser-known JackSkid and Mossad botnets have also been targeted in the operation.
International joint action disrupts world’s largest DDoS botnets
Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras.
Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-03-21