Kimwolf Botmaster Arrested
A 23-year-old Ottawa man, Jacob Butler, aka 'Dort', was arrested for building and operating the Kimwolf IoT botnet, which enslaved millions of devices for use in massive DDoS attacks.
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A 23-year-old Ottawa man, Jacob Butler, aka 'Dort', was arrested for building and operating the Kimwolf IoT botnet, which enslaved millions of devices for use in massive DDoS attacks.
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A 23-year-old Canadian man, Jacob Butler, has been arrested and charged with operating the KimWolf DDos botnet, a large-scale distributed denial-of-service platform that infected over a million devices worldwide.
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