A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025
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- “The collection of millions of hacked computers known as Aisuru and Kimwolf have been used to launch some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. Now United States law enforcement agencies have wiped both of them off the internet, along with two of the other hordes of hijacked computers—known as botnets—in a single broad takedown. … @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · Miguel Afonso Caetano
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@zephyr_z9
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Old man Wally was with Jensen 2-3 days ago LMAO [image]
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@zephyr_z9
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Old man has a net worth of $500M Got caught swapping serial numbers using a fucking hair dryer [image]
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@mattjay
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DOJ just announced takedown of four major botnets - Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. This is significant scale. > The numbers here are wild: combined 3+ million infected devices globally (hundreds of thousands in US alone), and attacks hitting 30 Tbps. That's [image]
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@ericjgeller.com
Eric Geller
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The U.S. has seized web infrastructure that cybercriminals were using to run four major DDoS botnets powered largely by hacked IoT devices. The botnets conducted record-breaking and costly attacks. Canada and Germany appear to have arrested some of the operators. www.justice.go…
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@agreenberg
Andy Greenberg
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Feds just took down 4 botnets, including the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets that carried out record-breaking DDOS attacks peaking at 30+ terabits per second, nearly three times the previous record. DOJ says the botnets had hijacked more than three million devices. www.wired.com/stor…
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Aisuru - Largest botnet in the world, taken down in joint operation between Canadian, German, and American federal police.
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US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks