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US and Canada arrest and charge suspected Kimwolf botnet admin

·Source: BleepingComputer

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Executive Summary

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. [...]

Analysis

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. [...]
Source Attribution

Originally published by BleepingComputer on May 22, 2026.

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