A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an eight-year-long sextortion scheme. […]
Jacob Butler, 23, has been arrested in Canada and US authorities are seeking his extradition on computer hacking charges. The post Canadian Man Arrested for Operating Kimwolf Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. […]
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 after the accused launched a […]
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. The post Deal Reached With Hackers to Delete Data Stolen From the Canvas Educational Platform appeared first on […]
Schlechtes Vorbild für die Schüler? Dass man Cyberkriminellen kein Lösegeld zahlen sollte, ist eigentlich bekannt. Instructure scheint es dennoch getan zu haben. (Cybercrime, Cyberwar)