Post by @briankrebs__dup_6@infosec.exchange

2026-03-02 13:40 UTC

New, by me: Who Is the Kimwolf Botmaster, &quot;Dort&quot;? 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. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/who-is-the-kimwolf-botmaster-dort/

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@n1xnx@tilde.zone 2026-03-02 14:51

@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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@xconde@social.chinwag.org 2026-03-02 18:39

@briankrebs oh wow Dort is losing his shit 😂 Keep up the excellent work!

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@fencepost@infosec.exchange 2026-03-02 19:09

@briankrebs first part of the article is available on your homepage, but the article itself 403s Edit: wonder if that was a vpn defense.

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@klausi@mastodon.social 2026-03-02 22:01

@briankrebs oh wow, look at all the infosec.exchange harassment reply accounts here. They really have a moderation problem 😳

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