DoJ Dismantles Massive IoT Botnets
DoJ Dismantles Massive IoT Botnets
The U.S. Department of Justice disrupted IoT botnets responsible for DDoS attacks peaking at 31.4 Tbps — the largest recorded throughput for extortion-driven disruption campaigns. The infrastructure leveraged approximately 3 million compromised devices across the global IoT ecosystem.
The operation fits an established DOJ pattern of targeting botnet command-and-control infrastructure rather than individual operators, prioritizing capacity degradation over prosecution timelines. Extortion-linked DDoS at this scale indicates coordinated monetization of compromised consumer and industrial hardware as a service layer.
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Source: Telegram "sitreports"