Jacob Butler
Individual member of Scattered Spider, arrested in 2024 as part of law enforcement action against the group.
Attribution signal
?Score = mentions × confidence weight, summed across all attributed sources. Higher source diversity increases the score.≥ 10 High≥ 3 Moderate< 3 LowAttribution signals
10 mentions · 6 sources"The U.S. Department of Justice reported that charges against the Canadian were filed in the District Court of Alaska."
"U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet"
"the Justice Department said Butler ran KimWolf as a DDoS-for-hire service that infected over a million devices worldwide"
"Jacob Butler was arrested in Ottawa on Wednesday after the U.S. Justice Department filed an extradition warrant tied to his operation of the KimWolf botnet"
"Court documents said Butler was linked to the administration of the KimWolf botnet through his IP address, account information, transactions, online messages and more."
"KrebsOnSecurity identified Butler as the Kimwolf operator by examining his email addresses, registrations on hacker forums, and messages on public Telegram and Discord servers."
"Canadian police arrested 23-year-old Ottawa resident Jacob Butler, suspected of creating and managing one of the largest botnets in history — Kimwolf."
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