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Posted on 03/20/2026 11:15:03 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced the results of an international operation to disrupt several IoT botnets used by threat actors to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The operation targeted the Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets and involved several major cybersecurity and tech companies, as well as law enforcement in Germany and Canada.
Authorities said the botnets have compromised more than 3 million devices as of March 2026, including DVRs, cameras, Wi-Fi routers, and other IoT devices.
Aisuru has made headlines over the past several months for its massive DDoS attacks, including several record-breaking attacks. It is tightly connected to Kimwolf, which is essentially Aisuru’s Android-focused successor.
Kimwolf was in the spotlight for abusing residential proxy networks to expand and for ensnaring roughly 2 million devices.
Aisuru and Kimwolf were both linked by Cloudflare in February to the largest DDoS attack recorded to date, which peaked at 31.4 Tbps.
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Not sure exactly what all this means, except maybe several people should be serving time.
Serving time? I’d prefer they were dragged into the street and set on fire.
After a fair trial, of course.
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they gotta be arrested and charged first, and nothing in any of the articles including the original source article at the DoJ mentioned anything like that ...
I do know that DVR’s were targeted as I could see them trying to hack into my network.
Unless you have an advanced firewall and can watch the traffic, most home users have no idea how many attacks they get per day looking for an open port.
Before the last "upgrade" from my ISP, their router would provide that information.
It varied from about 1,000 attempts per day to 18,000 attempts per day. I had no idea until I started looking at the counters. I was amazed that I ever got internet service at all. And what I did get was close to a 1GB transfer rate too.
My internal LAN never sees any of that traffic. The ISP was (and is) doing a pretty good job of shielding.
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