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

  • BrianKrebs--Krebs on Security
  • published date: 2026-05-21 21:50:25 UTC

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS…

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for us… [+4682 chars]