U.S. authorities have charged a 23‑year‑old Canadian man, Jacob Butler, with operating the KimWolf distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. Butler, known online as “Dort,” was arrested in Ottawa on an extradition warrant and charged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The KimWolf botnet infected more than one million devices worldwide, including those in Alaska, and was used to launch DDoS attacks that reached a peak volume of almost 30 terabits per second, causing losses of up to $1 million for some victims. U.S. officials say Butler’s involvement was established through IP addresses, online accounts, transaction records and messaging app data. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, with assistance from the FBI and other partners.
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