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John Kristoff @[email protected] · 2026-04-03 · 13:45 UTC

Weekend Reads

* Email address obfuscation in 2026
https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
* Profile of Kimwolf botnet researcher
https://www.wsj.com/tech/kimwolf-hack-residential-proxy-networks-a712ab59?st=dHJ5oe
* Quantifying AI data center heat impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20897
* Characterizing invalid routes via Tunnels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29207
* Detecting anomalous topology, routes, and congestion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25875

#EMail #Kimwolf #AI #RPKI #BGP

#email #kimwolf #ai #rpki #bgp

Miguel Afonso Caetano @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 16:07 UTC

"The collection of millions of hacked computers known as Aisuru and Kimwolf have been used to launch some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. Now United States law enforcement agencies have wiped both of them off the internet, along with two of the other hordes of hijacked computers—known as botnets—in a single broad takedown.

On Thursday, the US Department of Justice, working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation, removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf. Together, operators of the four botnets had amassed more than 3 million devices, the Justice Department said, and often sold access to those devices to other criminal hackers as well as using them to target victims with overwhelming floods of attack traffic to knock websites and internet services offline.

Aisuru and Kimwolf, a distinct but Aisuru-related botnet, had together comprised more than a million devices, according to DDoS defense firm Cloudflare, with Aisuru infecting a variety of devices ranging from DVRs to network appliances to webcams, and its Kimwolf offshoot infecting Android devices including smart TVs and set-top boxes."

https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/

#CyberSecurity #Botnets #DDoS #Aisuru #Kimwolf

#cybersecurity #botnets #ddos #aisuru #kimwolf

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-03-20 · 03:27 UTC

US Takes Down #Botnets Used in Record-Breaking #Cyberattacks

The #Aisuru , #Kimwolf , #JackSkid , and #Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.
#doj #privacy #security

https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/

#security #privacy #doj #mossad #jackskid #kimwolf

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-03-20 · 03:16 UTC

Feds Disrupt #IoT #Botnets Behind Huge #DDoS Attacks

#doj joined authorities in #Canada & #Germany in dismantling the online #infrastructure behind 4 highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than 3 million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as #routers & web #cameras. The feds say the 4 botnets — named #Aisuru , #Kimwolf , #JackSkid & #Mossad — are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing DDoS attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/

#mossad #jackskid #kimwolf #aisuru #cameras #routers

The New Oil @[email protected] · 2026-03-02 · 06:00 UTC

Who is the #Kimwolf #Botmaster “#Dort”?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/who-is-the-kimwolf-botmaster-dort/

#cybersecurity #cybercrime

#kimwolf #botmaster #dort #cybersecurity #cybercrime

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 03:46 UTC

#Kimwolf #Botnet Swamps #Anonymity Network #I2P

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” ( #IoT;) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The #InvisibleInternetProject ( #I2P ), a decentralized, #encrypted communications network designed to #anonymize and secure online communications.
#privacy #security #encryption