U.S. Justice Department Disrupts Four IoT Botnets Responsible for Massive DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department, in collaboration with authorities in Canada and Germany, disrupted the infrastructure of four IoT botnets—Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad—which had compromised over three million hacked IoT devices, including routers and web cameras. These botnets were responsible for recent record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of taking nearly any target offline. No specific dates for the takedown or attacks were provided, nor were technical indicators like CVE IDs mentioned. The operation targeted the botnets' command-and-control infrastructure to neutralize their ability to launch further attacks. The impacted devices were primarily consumer-grade IoT hardware exploited due to weak security configurations.