{"id":218997,"date":"2026-05-23T03:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:55:08","slug":"authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities arrest 23-year-old accused of running the Kimwolf botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192533\/cyber-crime\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet.html\">Authorities arrest 23-year-old accused of running the Kimwolf botnet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192533\/cyber-crime\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet.html\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192533\/cyber-crime\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 09:57:49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian authorities arrested 23-year-old Jacob Butler, an Ottawa resident, who is accused of running the Kimwolf botnet. US authorities charged Butler with aiding and abetting computer intrusion, potentially resulting in up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Investigators linked him to the botnet through IP addresses, account records, financial transactions, and app data. The Kimwolf botnet, which had infected over 2 million Android devices, was part of a DDoS-for-hire service that launched thousands of large-scale DDoS attacks worldwide. In a significant coordinated international operation, the U.S. Department of Justice, along with Canadian and German authorities, disrupted the command-and-control infrastructure of several IoT botnets, aiming to stop further infections and attacks and recover over 3 million hijacked devices used for criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<br \/>\n&#8211; Jacob Butler arrested in Ottawa is accused of running the Kimwolf botnet.<br \/>\n&#8211; U.S. authorities charge Butler with computer intrusion with a potential 10-year prison sentence.<br \/>\n&#8211; The disrupted botnet had infected over 2 million devices.<br \/>\n&#8211; The U.S. and international cooperation led to the disruption of several botnets, protecting over 3 million devices from DDoS attacks.<br \/>\n&#8211; Law enforcement connected Butler\u2019s activities to the botnet through detailed digital forensics.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities arrest 23-year-old accused of running the Kimwolf botnet https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192533\/cyber-crime\/authorities-arrest-23-year-old-accused-of-running-the-kimwolf-botnet.html Publish Date: 2026-05-22 09:57:49 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DoJ.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219001,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218997\/revisions\/219001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}