@UK_Daniel_Card Looks to be no longer online. Also to seem to be misold by the upstream provider - looks to be datacenter.
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It's amazing to see the impact that one *student* can have on the world.
Super excited to see where Ben and Synthient go. The work this kid is publishing is so impressive.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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The internet has a new hero 😉
Headtip to @deobfuscately for his amazing work in the last months.
I know how much stuff you have been dealing with and its amazing how you keep moving forward despite all the pressure.
Keep going buddy.
May @synthient grow and prosper 😊
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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Ben retweetledi
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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A routine all you can eat sushi lock in session and @deobfuscately casually mentions he got featured in an article…
>Its a full feature expo in WSJ
>used cat memes to socially engineer
>reverse engineered their backdooor
>pivoted that into mapping ~2M infected res proxy devices
>caught it midterms week
>notified relevant authorities
>U.S DoJ brings charges and shouts him out
>kimwolf gets kneecapped
>back to spicy tuna like nothing happened
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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We have adjusted the scoring on the advisory to reflect server-side mitigations that the vendor described during the disclosure process.
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New Research Piece: Socks5Systemz: Lives On
Socks5Systemz lives on as ProxyBox, infecting Windows devices via pirated software to build a 31K+ IP address proxy network targeting enterprise financial sectors.
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🚨JUST IN🚨The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), FBI Anchorage, and international partners disrupted four of the world’s largest Internet of Things (IoT) botnets that together were responsible for millions of infected devices and hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks worldwide. 🔗ow.ly/PBQb50YwAHN
@USAO_AK | @DoD_IG
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In 2025 botnets started using residential proxy networks (like IPIDEA which Google disrupted in Jan) to spread to vulnerable IoT within home networks. DDoS quadrupled in size, a step change in the expected exponential growth trend (here shown on a log scale).
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Synthient Helps Disrupt World's Largest DDoS Botnet
The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with international law enforcement, has announced a major operation to disrupt the infrastructure of four of the world’s largest IoT botnets, including Aisuru and Kimwolf. Together, these botnets hijacked over three million devices worldwide to launch record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
The Kimwolf botnet specifically targeted devices traditionally firewalled from the broader internet, enslaving them to act as proxy traffic for criminal networks and launch attacks reaching up to 30 Terabits per second.
Synthient is proud to have contributed to the DOJ's efforts. By identifying active exploitation, sharing malware samples, and coordinating disclosures with impacted parties, we helped neutralize this threat. We remain dedicated to making the web a safer place and are grateful to have played a role in this historic takedown.
Link: justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/aut…
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