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„On Thurs., @TheJusticeDept (@DOJRR47), working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation,
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removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf.
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Together, operators of the four botnets had amassed more than 3 million devices,
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@TheJusticeDept said, and often sold access to those devices to other criminal hackers as well as using them to target victims with overwhelming floods of attack traffic to knock websites and internet services offline.”
March 19, 2026
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