The Kimwolf botnet case — an AISURU variant that generated 31.4 Tbps DDoS peaks from compromised IoT devices — was disrupted with the arrest of operator Jacob Butler and seizure of 45 DDoS-for-hire platforms. Primary botnet nodes were consumer-grade IoT devices (digital photo frames, web cameras) compromised via default credentials and missing authentication. The infrastructure disruption reduces near-term attack capacity but does not eliminate the underlying vulnerability class; IoT devices with weak authentication remain a persistent botnet recruitment target.