The Fall of ‘Dort’: Inside the Collapse of the Kimwolf IoT Botnet
In a landmark victory for international law enforcement, a 23-year-old Ottawa resident, Jacob Butler—known in the shadowy corners of the internet by the handle "Dort"—was arrested this week on charges of masterminding "Kimwolf," a formidable Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet responsible for a wave of record-breaking cyberattacks that have plagued global networks for the past six months….
