Justice Department disrupts botnet networks that hijacked 3 million devices

Authorities disrupted the command-and-control infrastructure for four major botnets—Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad—that together had infected about three million devices (DVRs, webcams, routers, TV boxes and Android devices) and launched more than 300,000 DDoS attacks. The report highlights Kimwolf’s exploitation of residential-proxy networks to scale to over two million Android TV infections and notes Aisuru produced a record 29.7 Tbps DDoS; law enforcement and many private-sector partners coordinated to render the botnets’ infrastructure inoperable.