A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)

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On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network suffered one of the worst Sybil attacks ever recorded when the Kimwolf IoT botnet—responsible for a record 31.4 Tbps DDoS in December 2025—accidentally flooded it with 700,000 hostile nodes (vs. the normal 15,000–20,000). The botnet operators were attempting to use I2P as backup C2

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