The US Justice Department announced on Thursday that a Canadian man has been arrested for operating the recently disrupted Kimwolf DDoS botnet.
The suspect, 23-year-old Jacob Butler of Ottawa, known online as ‘Dort’, is accused of administering the botnet and has been charged in the US on one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusion.
Butler has been arrested in Canada and the US is seeking his extradition. If found guilty, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
“Law enforcement allegedly connected Butler to the administration of the KimWolf botnet through IP address, online account information, transaction records, and online messaging application records obtained through the issuance of legal process,” the DoJ said.
In March, the Justice Department announced the disruption of several IoT botnets used to carry out DDoS attacks. One of them was Kimwolf, described as the Android-focused successor of a botnet named Aisuru, which was also targeted by authorities.
