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US and Canada arrest and charge suspected Kimwolf botnet admin
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Summary
US and Canadian authorities have arrested Jacob Butler, an administrator of the KimWolf DDoS botnet, following a multi-national operation targeting several botnets. The botnet, which infected nearly two million devices globally, was used to launch large-scale DDoS attacks and generate significant financial losses. Authorities seized command-and-control infrastructure and disrupted related DDoS platforms as part of the investigation.
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