As of right now, there are no arrests reported, though German and Canadian authorities reportedly have their eyes on potential targets, namely a 15-year-old from Germany , and a Canadian 22-year-old who is presumed to be the infamous Kimwolf operator, alias "Dort" .
You may like DoJ dismantles botnet made of 360,000 infected routers and IOT devices across 163 countries that ran for 16 years Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once United States DoJ, Europol, and friends bring down LeakBase cybercrime forum The bulk of those infected devices belong to the rather large Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets, both of which were in the news recently due to the scale of the DDoS attacks performed through them. Notably but not exclusively, the largest attack was performed pretty recently in late January, smashing worldwide records at a record 31.4 Tb/s, enough bandwidth to take entire countries offline.
The DoJ says that Aisuru was responsible for about 200,000 DDoS attacks, while Kimwolf scored 25,000, JackSkid 90,000, and Mossad 1,000. Some of those attacks made the bold move of striking at IP ranges owned by the US DoD.
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