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Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

ID: e34e7766-0110-5930-a2cf-e0fd82543858

STIX ID: report--e34e7766-0110-5930-a2cf-e0fd82543858

Feed Name: Krebs on Security

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2026-05-21

Date Updated: 2026-05-22

Author: BrianKrebs

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The report describes the arrest and charging of a 23-year-old Ottawa man, Jacob Butler (aka “Dort”), accused of operating the Kimwolf IoT botnet that enslaved millions of devices for massive DDoS attacks (reported near 30 Tbps), as well as doxing, swatting, and renting infected devices to other criminals; law enforcement seized infrastructure and charged him in Canada and the U.S.

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