Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department, with Canadian and German partners, disrupted the infrastructure behind four IoT botnets—Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad—that had compromised millions of devices and were used to launch hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks and extortion attempts; the report outlines the botnets' scale, propagation methods (notably Kimwolf's internal-network spread), timelines, and law enforcement seizures and investigations into suspected operators.