The Kimwolf Bust Just Outed Android Webcams as Botnet Fodder — Here's the Question Every Repurposed-Phone Camera Setup Has to Answer (opens in new tab)

On May 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of a 23-year-old in Ottawa for allegedly running Kimwolf, a DDoS-for-hire botnet that prosecutors say issued more than 25,000 attack commands and helped power record-setting floods peaking at 31.4 terabits per second. According to the indictment, Kimwolf is a variant of AISURU that specifically targeted Android devices with an exposed Android Debug Bridge (ADB) service — and the device class the DoJ called out by name was st...