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International joint action disrupts world’s largest DDoS botnets

Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The joint law enforcement action also targeted virtual servers, internet domains, and other infrastructure used by the four botnets to launch hundreds of thousands of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against victims worldwide in recent months, including IP addresses owned by the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN). For instance, in December, the Aisuru botnet set a new record with a DDoS attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second as part of a broader campaign targeting multiple companies, most of which were in the…

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Mar 20, 2026
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