Canadian man arrested, charged for running KimWolf DDos botnet
In court documents unsealed on Thursday, the Justice Department said Jacob Butler ran KimWolf as a DDoS-for-hire service that infected over a million devices worldwide.
A Canadian man was arrested this week on charges of operating a large botnet taken down by law enforcement agencies earlier this year.
Jacob Butler was arrested in Ottawa on Wednesday after the U.S. Justice Department filed an extradition warrant tied to his operation of the KimWolf botnet, one of the largest and most damaging distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms in the world. DDoS platforms flood targeted websites and servers with junk traffic, making them unreachable.
Butler, 23, was initially identified by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs in February and denied being behind the online persona known as “Dort” that ran KimWolf.
Source: https://therecord.media/canadian-man-arrested-charged-running-kimwolf-botnet
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