New, by me: Who Is the Kimwolf Botmaster, "Dort"?
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New, by me: Who Is the Kimwolf Botmaster, "Dort"?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.
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New, by me: Who Is the Kimwolf Botmaster, "Dort"?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.
@briankrebs
There's a trivially easy way for the person claiming not to be Dort to prove his innocence.Submit his hardware and accounts to direct inspection by a neutral third party.
If his claim of account hijack is true, this would even help him mitigate that damage.
However, I rather strongly suspect that's all BS, and the identified individual really is the criminal (SWATting is most definitely a crime the police would be interested in).
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New, by me: Who Is the Kimwolf Botmaster, "Dort"?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.
@briankrebs BRIAN KREBS IS A PDF DON'T TRUST HIM
