U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested Jacob Butler, alias ‘Dort,’ for allegedly operating the Kimwolf botnet, a DDoS-for-hire infrastructure that compromised approximately two million IoT devices and conducted over 25,000 attacks, including record-setting volumetric assaults. Organizations running unmanaged or consumer-grade IoT devices face residual risk from surviving botnet nodes and copycat operators. The law enforcement disruption reduces near-term attack capacity but does not eliminate the underlying IoT exploitation infrastructure that enabled this threat.