Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of those proxy endpoints.

Kimwolf botnet exploits smart gadgets for DDoS attacks, highlighting security lapses in device protection and supply chains.

A major U.S. internet service provider said it's blocked incoming traffic to more than 550 command and control servers botnets identified over the past four months ...

Telecommunications company Lumen successfully disrupted hundreds of command-and-control servers for the massive and resilient ...

The Kimwolf botnet compromised more than 2 million Android devices, turning them into residential proxies for DDoS attacks and traffic abuse.

GoBruteforcer botnet fueled by server deployments with weak credentials and legacy web is targeting cryptocurrency and ...

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you ...

Security researchers warn Android TV streaming boxes promising free channels may secretly hijack home internet connections ...

Up to two million Android TV boxes worldwide could be infected by the new 'Kimwolf botnet' - with 400,000 Irish households ...

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes.

The Kimwolf botnet, an Android variant of the Aisuru malware, has grown to more than two million hosts, most of them infected by exploiting vulnerabilities in residential proxy networks to target ...

The botnet known as Kimwolf has infected more than 2 million Android devices by tunneling through residential proxy networks, according to findings from Synthient. "Key actors involved in the Kimwolf ...