Canadian police arrest 23 year old for Kimwolf DDoS botnet

CANADIAN authorities arrested Jacob Butler, 23, accused of operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, allegedly responsible for compromising over 2 million Android devices. U.S. authorities are seeking his extradition. Butler faces charges of computer intrusion, with potential sentencing of up to 10 years. The Kimwolf botnet utilized residential proxies and was part of a larger law enforcement operation that disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by multiple IoT botnets. The operation led to the seizure of domains and servers used in cybercrime, targeting DDoS attacks that caused significant financial losses to victims.