Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler aka Dort, 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the developmen...

Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit

Bluesky is back online after a roughly 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported...

Mirai Variant Nexcorium Exploits CVE-2024-3721 to Hijack TBK DVRs for DDoS Botnet

Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life EoL TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai-botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting TBK DVR devices has been found to explo...

Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion

Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion By Mohideen Abdul Khader F · April 7, 2026 Botnet overview The Masjesu botnet, a sophisticated, commercially-run Internet of Things IoT threat, has been operational and evolving since early 2023, continuing into...

K000160327: Protect your network from geopolitical uncertainty with F5

Security Advisory Description While there are many cyber-threats creating a constant need for cybersecurity efforts, history teaches us that geopolitical conflicts often generate increased cyber activity. In recent years the world has seen conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, and elsewhere generate...

Update, March 13: Talos on the developing situation in the Middle East

Update history Date | Description of updates ---|--- March 13, 2026 | Talos' assessment of the cyber attack on Stryker and the elevated threat landscape. Key findings and background on Handala, the Iranian-linked threat group. March 10, 2026 | Updated guidance and recommendations, IOCs, and...

CVE-2026-2507

When BIG-IP AFM or BIG-IP DDoS is provisioned, undisclosed traffic can cause TMM to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support EoTS are not evaluated...

CVE-2026-2507

When BIG-IP AFM or BIG-IP DDoS is provisioned, undisclosed traffic can cause TMM to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support EoTS are not evaluated...

CVE-2026-2507

CVE-2026-2507 affects BIG-IP AFM and BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender where provisioning can trigger Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) termination due to undisclosed traffic, causing DoS. The advisory notes EoTS-excluded versions. Affected versions are not fully listed in these sources, but F5’s K0...

CVE-2026-2507

When BIG-IP AFM or BIG-IP DDoS is provisioned, undisclosed traffic can cause TMM to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support EoTS are not evaluated...

PT-2026-20463

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BIG-IP AFM and BIG-IP DDoS affected versions not specified Description Undisclosed traffic can cause Traffic Management Microkernel TMM to terminate when BIG-IP Application Firewall AFM or BIG-IP Distributed Denial of Service DDoS is...

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" IoT botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project I2P, a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network...

Tenda AC9 安全漏洞

The Tenda AC9 is a wireless router produced by the Chinese company Tenda. The Tenda AC9 15.03.06.42multi version has a security vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from improper handling of the security.ddos.map parameter in the formGetDdosDefenceList function, which may lead to a stack buffe...

I Am in the Epstein Files

Once. Someone named "Vincenzo lozzo" wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: "I wouldn't pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and misunderstanding things." The topic of the email is DDoS attacks, and it is unclear what I am dramatizing and misunderstanding. Rab...

MiracleLinux 9 : nghttp2-1.43.0-5.el9.1 (AXSA:2023-6518:02)

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2023-6518:02 advisory. HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack Rapid Reset Attack CVE-2023-44487 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

ICE Agent Doxxing Platform was Crippled After Coordinated DDoS Attack

The activist website called "ICE List" was offline after a massive DDoS attack. The crash followed a leak of 4,500 federal agent names linked to the Renee Nicole Good shooting...

Researchers Null-Route Over 550 Kimwolf and Aisuru Botnet Command Servers

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control C2 nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times,...

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we'll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators and services th...

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it's time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about...

SD-CGAN: Conditional Sinkhorn Divergence GAN for DDoS Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks

The increasing complexity of IoT edge networks presents significant challenges for anomaly detection, particularly in identifying sophisticated Denial-of-Service DoS attacks and zero-day exploits under highly dynamic and imbalanced traffic conditions. This paper proposes SD-CGAN, a Conditional...