A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.

The malicious networks - Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad - were used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, with some Department of Defense websites among the targets.

U.S. authorities seized KimWolf - the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack ...

In total, the operation went after four botnets, estimated to have infected millions of devices across the globe, including TV boxes, web cameras and Wi-Fi routers.

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.

A major international operation has successfully taken down four large botnets. These networks infected over three million ...

The armies of hacked computers and internet of things gadgets powered disruption and extortion campaigns that sometimes cost victims tens of thousands of dollars.

The US Justice Department has disrupted four global botnets, Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad, which infected over 3 ...

Aisuru emerged in late 2024, and by mid-2025 it was launching record-breaking DDoS attacks as it rapidly infected new IoT devices. In October 2025, Aisuru was used to seed Kimwolf, an Aisuru variant ...

Law enforcement agencies have scored a major win against the world’s most predatory botnet operations, dismantling the infrastructure of four major networks responsible for some of the most aggressive ...

Federal authorities in the United States, working with law enforcement in Canada and Germany, said they disrupted four major ...