"The US Department of Justice, working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation, removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf."
"Aisuru and Kimwolf, a distinct but Aisuru-related botnet, had together comprised more than a million devices, according to DDoS defense firm Cloudflare, with Aisuru infecting a variety of devices ranging from DVRs to network appliances to webcams, and its Kimwolf offshoot infecting Android devices including smart TVs and set-top boxes."
"Cloudflare says the two botnets, working in conjunction, carried out a cyberattack against a Cloudflare customer last November that reached more than 30 terabits of data per second, nearly three times the size of the previous biggest such attack."
The US Department of Justice and Defense Criminal Investigative Service successfully dismantled four major botnets named JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf in a coordinated operation. These botnets collectively controlled over 3 million compromised devices including DVRs, network appliances, webcams, Android devices, smart TVs, and set-top boxes. Aisuru and Kimwolf alone comprised more than 1 million devices and conducted a record-breaking DDoS attack exceeding 30 terabits per second against a Cloudflare customer. Botnet operators sold access to compromised devices to other criminals and used them to launch overwhelming attack traffic against websites and internet services. The operation involved collaboration between US authorities and Canadian and German law enforcement targeting individuals operating these botnets.
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