Arrest

Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler for operating the KimWolf IoT botnet. The DDoS-for-hire operation enslaved nearly 2 million devices and set volumetric attack records.

Peter Stokes, 19, was detained while boarding a flight to Japan. Federal prosecutors allege he participated in breaches that forced companies to pay millions in ransoms.

A five-year investigation ends with extradition to South Korea. The 29-year-old allegedly infected 2.8 million Windows systems through trojanized software activation tools.